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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Abundant Living | November 20, 2025
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- Dr. ed young: we've been talking about having a
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- Life coach, long time.
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- Then we move from having a life coach to talking about how do we
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- Proceed and progress in our christian walk?
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- And i looked at some verses, and i've reviewed
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- Them again, like john 10:10.
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- Jesus said, "i've come that you might have life and might have
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- Life abundantly," and i looked again at that word abundant,
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- Abundantly, and it's such a pregnant word.
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- It means that we are surrounded by beauty,
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- By excellence, by an overcoming, overwhelming presence.
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- We are surrounded with overflowing ministry to our
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- Lives and our needs.
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- That's the abundant life.
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- And i thought, "am i experiencing
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- That abundant life?"
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- Are you experiencing that abundant life?
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- Then, i looked again at john chapter 15.
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- We talked about that.
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- Jesus says, "i am the vine, you are the branch," remember?
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- And on that branch, if we just abide in the vine,
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- We're the branches, he'll hang fruit on our lives,
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- And i looked up that fruit, and therefore we need to have some
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- Of that love, and joy, and peace,
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- And patience, and kindness, and goodness,
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- And faithfulness, and gentleness,
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- And self-control, discipline, and i said,
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- "is some of that beginning to come out in my life?"
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- Is it beginning to come out in your life?
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- And then i looked over and remembered that little verse in
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- 2 corinthians chapter 5, "if anyone is in christ,
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- They are a new creation in christ," new creation,
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- "old things are passed away, everything has become new," and
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- I asked myself, "are old things passed away?"
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- Is everything becoming new?
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- Then, i looked at the end of john 15,
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- And after he talked about we will bear fruit,
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- Then there's much fruit, then there's more fruit,
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- And then jesus says, "as he has been obedient to the commandment
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- Of the father, the father has bathed him in his love," and he
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- Says, "as you," that's you and i,
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- If we are obedient to him and walk with him,
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- He bathes us in his love, and i stopped and said,
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- "am i being bathed in the love of jesus christ?
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- Are you being bathed in the love of jesus christ?
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- Then the later part of john 15, there's that tremendous
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- Christian word, joy, that's it, isn't it?
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- So you look at all the benefits of being in christ,
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- And we back up and say, "what does it mean to be in christ?"
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- To be in a relationship.
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- You don't say for a relationship,
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- With a relationship, you're in a relationship.
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- So when we say we are in christ, it means that we
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- Believe in jesus, but we entered into a relationship
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- With jesus the christ.
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- Zip line, and i can stand and say i believe in that zip line,
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- It will take me across this valley,
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- But i have to take and clip on, and get in that little seat,
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- And then i am into the zip line, right?
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- I believed in, and now i'm into, as zip,
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- I go across the valley.
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- When we're in christ, it means that we have been
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- Invited, and we have entered into a personal relationship
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- With jesus christ.
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- Have you experienced that? are you experiencing that?
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- Am i experiencing that kind of personal
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- Relationship with christ?
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- I'm in christ, and you're in christ,
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- Because we have entered into a relationship with jesus christ.
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- You see, everything in the world has a place
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- To belong, everything.
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- A tree belongs in the ground where it is
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- Surrounded and it grows.
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- It's nourished, and it grows.
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- A tree has a place to belong, right?
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- A fish has a place to belong, in water,
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- Surrounded where it grows.
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- No danger of being caught by this crowd,
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- But anyway, a fish has a place to belong,
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- A tree has a place to belong.
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- Anything you name in the created order,
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- It has a place to belong.
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- Human beings, you and i, have a place to belong.
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- Augustine said it best, and i'll paraphrase,
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- He said, "you will be restless.
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- Your life, your heart will be restless until you rest," get
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- This phrase, "in him," in him.
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- That's where we find rest.
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- We have a place to belong, but we are restless until we rest in
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- Him, and we enter into a relationship with him when he
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- Invites us, and we receive him, and we are in christ because
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- We've entered into christ.
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- Therefore, why are we not growing up?
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- Why are we not growing up?
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- So many of us are static in our christian life,
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- We're just--something's happened to us.
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- We haven't matured, we're not progressing with the
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- Moment of transformation.
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- Scripture, passage in hebrews, in your bulletin,
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- Passage in 1 corinthians 13, the love chapter.
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- A little verse is nestled down there against all the
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- Definitions of love, and the verse says,
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- "when i was a child, i spake as a child,
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- When i became a man, i put away childish things."
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- No, it goes on an talks about why are we still children?
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- Why are we still immature in christ?
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- Why you and i?
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- It doesn't have anything to do with age all the time.
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- There are some people who are 70 who are very immature,
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- Some people who are 19 who are very mature in christ.
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- What happened to us? we're still babies.
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- What's the characters of a baby?
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- Four things, a baby does only four things,
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- Sleeps, cries, eats, and poops.
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- That's it.
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- A baby doesn't know what's going on.
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- Babies--that's all it, eats, sleeps,
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- Cries, poops, that's a baby.
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- And the scripture says in hebrews,
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- And the scripture says in corinthians that some of us
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- Who are in christ, we have entered into christ,
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- We're still children, we're still immature.
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- And we've been talking about growing up in christ, so how do
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- We know that we are in that process of being
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- Mature in the lord?
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- How do we know? what are some things?
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- So, first of all, we have to have a transformed mind.
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- If our minds are being transformed,
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- That's a clue that we're growing up.
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- And we looked at romans 12:1-2 how many times?
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- "be not conformed to this world, by ye," what?
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- Transformed, how?
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- "by the renewing of your mind," garbage in,
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- Garbage out, computer talk.
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- We renew our mind by what we put in our minds,
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- And we renew it, and christ, the holy spirit,
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- Renews our minds, our thinking, because we're surrounded by the
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- Wisdom of the world, natural wisdom, worldly wisdom.
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- And we have little clichés, little sayings
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- That describe worldly wisdom.
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- You hear them all the time.
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- We say, "that's not true," but yet,
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- We are a part of that environment.
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- A statement like, "the one who has the most
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- Toys at the end wins."
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- You heard that one?
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- Or, "if you don't toot your own horn, who will toot it?"
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- Ever heard that one?
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- That's worldly wisdom, and we're surrounded by people
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- Who operate on that basis.
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- Get more, have more, enjoy more.
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- You only live once, have all the gusto that you
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- Can, worldly wisdom.
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- But also, when we are in christ, we receive a different kind of
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- Mindset, and therefore, begin to have supernatural wisdom.
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- What does supernatural wisdom?
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- It works in a different dimension,
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- A different area, and we begin to understand phrases like,
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- "he is no fool who gives what he cannot keep in order to gain
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- What he cannot lose."
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- Hmm, that is supernatural wisdom.
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- "one life to live soon will be passed,
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- Only what you've done for god will last," supernatural wisdom.
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- "i'd rather have jesus than silver or gold,"
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- Supernatural wisdom.
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- "every day with jesus is sweeter,
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- Better than the day before," supernatural wisdom,
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- Not just church talk.
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- And you see, we are with this wisdom,
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- This supernatural wisdom, the potential of the mind of christ
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- Being created in you, and being created in me,
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- We have a whole different world view.
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- So, a mark that we are maturing is that we are developing a
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- Transformed mind.
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- Also, another mark that we're maturing is,
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- We're developing a transformed heart.
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- What makes your heart beat fast?
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- That's a good question, think about that.
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- What makes your heart beat fast?
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- Some who follow sports, 5 years ago when the aggies were playin'
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- Texas, i'm tellin' you, i was so excited,
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- About that game, who won?
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- You don't even know, keith.
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- How many--what makes our heart beast fast?
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- You know, determine what makes my heart beat fast,
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- And what makes your heart beat fast,
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- It determines something of what our heart is set on.
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- It is out of the passion of the heart.
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- "as a man thinketh, so is he."
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- We think in one way, we're devoting the mind to christ,
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- Then our heart speaks to us, gives the passion to
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- Follow through on that.
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- Transformed heart, that's a sign we're growing and maturing.
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- And also, transformed eyes. what do you see?
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- What do you see? oh, here we go.
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- Some of us look out, and we have rose-colored glasses.
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- We see everybody, you are beautiful.
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- Everybody's wonderful.
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- We're all gonna be healthy, and rich,
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- And wise, and have fun, and oh, rose-colored glasses.
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- Just can't see anything but marvelous stuff.
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- Is that developing mature spiritual eyes,
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- Eyes that christ would have?
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- Rose-colored glasses--i wanna give these away.
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- Who would like some rose-colored glasses?
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- Come right here, good, good. try 'em on, i think they'll fit.
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- And then, we've got all these other kind.
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- We've got this group, "everything is bad.
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- I can't see any good in anybody."
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- And there can be marvelous things listed,
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- 99 great things, and this person says,
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- "oh, look at this, look at this."
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- The mind, the heart, the eyes, and the feet,
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- If we're growing, our feet are being transformed.
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- A lot of us are childlike with our feet in the sense of the
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- Directions that we take.
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- We go where we're pushed, we go where there's motivation,
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- We go where we think we'll look good,
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- Or we'll have pleasure.
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- And you see, when we have transformed feet,
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- We have more a sense of how we'll spend our time.
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- We talk about tithing, giving 10% of our income,
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- Or more than that if we're more than blessed,
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- Nobody tithes their time.
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- Somebody says, "well, i tithe their time."
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- Well, get your counter out and see how you're doing.
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- Ha, ha, no, you're not.
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- So, time, discipline, transformed feet,
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- A sense of direction in life, a will,
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- A purpose in life, that's a part of growing up and being matured.
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- And then, finally, we'll have transformed hands.
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- Oh yeah, if we're growing in christ,
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- We'll have transformed hands.
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- You say, "what are you talking about?"
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- We'll have hands with what i call kingdom calluses,
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- Kingdom calluses.
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- Tolstoy, in one of his novels, wrote about the ideal czar would
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- Have a palace in which anyone in his realm of control could come
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- And be fed, and sit at his table.
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- The only qualification is, when they came to the gate,
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- They would say, "show me your hands," and if your hands were
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- Slick like mine, it meant you didn't work and you would not
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- Eat with the czar.
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- But, if your hands were callused,
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- They would welcome you in, and you would sit and banquet with
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- The king, with the czar.
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- So, in matthew 25, the judgment, jesus is on the
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- Judgment seat, remember?
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- And a lot of people there are excited because they think,
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- "boy, i'm in the kingdom.
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- I made a profession of faith in jesus christ.
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- I was baptized in the church. i professed to be a christian.
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- I'm okay."
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- And jesus is gonna say, "let me see your hands?
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- You may not be okay, because let me see your hands."
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- "what do you mean?"
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- Because there was a group who thought they were okay,
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- And jesus said, "no, you're a bunch of goats,
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- You're not sheep, you're goats."
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- They said, "we thought we were okay."
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- And jesus said, "you know, i was hungry,
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- You didn't give me anything to eat."
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- He said, "i was thirsty, you didn't give me
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- Anything to drink."
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- And he said to these who thought they were okay because they had
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- Professed faith, he said, "you know,
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- I was in prison, you didn't visit me,
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- Sick, didn't come to see me."
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- And they said, "lord, we didn't know you were hungry," or,
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- "we didn't know you were sick.
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- We didn't know you needed clothes.
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- We didn't know you were in prison."
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- And jesus said, "if you've done it unto the one of the nobody's,
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- The least of me, you didn't do it to them,
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- Therefore, you didn't do it to me because that's who i was,"
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- And they didn't have callused hands.
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- And they were condemned, why?
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- Our profession leads to a life, it leads to maturity,
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- It leads to, as we begin to develop, a transformed mind,
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- A transformed heart, transformed feet,
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- We develop until we develop transformed hands.
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- Show me your hands.
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- Or, let me tell you something, the nail-scarred hand of jesus,
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- When we graduate on this earth, we'll reach down and be thrilled
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- To take hold of a kingdom callused hands who have served
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- In his name, a hand that has bled,
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- A hand that has kept, the hand-scarred hand that jesus
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- Loves to hold a hand like that.
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- Show me your hands. show me your hands.
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- I'll tell you something about getting to heaven.
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- Let's look at three things, three things.
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- Biblical principles, we will begin in heaven where
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- We left off on earth.
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- Does that worry you?
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- If you're not gonna develop it should worry us.
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- Where we leave off here, we'll begin in heaven.
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- Next point, each will be enjoying god with the capacity
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- We bring with us.
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- Uh-oh, i take you to a basketball game i love,
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- I know basketball, and i would look at it with one level,
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- Some of you'd look at it with what?
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- Take me to a symphony with a fabulous orchestra,
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- You who are musicians would enjoy it with one level,
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- I would enjoy it with a lesser level.
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- I'm the loser because i didn't enjoy it in the level.
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- I'm not equipped to do that.
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- My ear, my mind has not been trained like it should,
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- Just like you wouldn't enjoy basketball because you haven't
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- Been trained like perhaps you should.
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- So, what i'm saying, each of us will be enjoying god with the
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- Capacity we bring with us.
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- You say, "well, there's gonna be ranks in heaven?"
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- Yes, but we don't know it, that's the third point.
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- Everybody's cup will be full, but some cups will be larger.
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- That's heaven.
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- In other words, i'll have my little teacup there,
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- It'll be full, i'll feel okay, but i'll miss so
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- Much that's there.
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- You'll have a cup that may be larger,
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- It will be filled to capacity, mine is filled to capacity,
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- And it will be deeper, because we bring there as we've been
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- Growing and develop in the kingdom with our calluses.
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- So this is the impetus for you,
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- And for me, to grow up in christ.
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- Ask the holy spirit, "lord, look at my mind.
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- Do some work of transformation there," and spell it out,
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- Be exact, be specific.
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- Don't just pray, "lord, forgive me of all my many sins."
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- That is silly. name them, that's serious.
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- Transformed mind, transformed heart,
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- Transformed feet, oh yeah, transformed eyes,
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- Transformed hands.
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- Let me see your hands.
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- They're still the hands of a child in christ, a child.
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- My dad, when i was about 15, had a cerebral
- 00:19:59.578 --> 00:20:03.081
- Hemorrhage right here.
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- My dad was, you've heard me say, hardest workin' man that anybody
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- Who knew him had ever seen.
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- He held two jobs most all of my years at home, two jobs.
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- He would shave at night, about 8:30,
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- 9 o'clock at night so he wouldn't be slowed down going to
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- Work the next morning at 4:30.
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- He didn't wanna be slowed down and hadn't shaved.
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- That's my dad.
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- He'd work 8 hours, go take the first job.
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- The second job, he worked another 8 hours.
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- That's how he operated.
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- Hardest working man you'd ever seen in your life.
- 00:20:36.481 --> 00:20:41.486
- But he had never sick, really, but out of the blue,
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- He had this cerebral hemorrhage.
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- He'd been a christian then, maybe 2 or 3 years.
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- He was a babe in christ.
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- And so, they diagnosed what his problem was in our little town,
- 00:20:51.863 --> 00:20:55.200
- But they had nothing to do about it.
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- We didn't have any funding to go anywhere else,
- 00:20:57.402 --> 00:20:59.638
- But one of the sisters of my mother had married a man who'd
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- Been successful in melbourne, arkansas,
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- And they came, and out of his generosity,
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- He arranged for my dad to go to touro infirmary in new orleans
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- To see what they could do about this cerebral hemorrhage.
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- And they diagnosed it, they had two ways to approach it.
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- They could cut the skull open and repair it like a inner tube
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- Or something, but that was high risk in those days,
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- And that's not what they did.
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- Instead, they went and they blocked off the arteries on one
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- Side of the neck, and you've got arteries that can function when
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- This artery's clogged up, and they blocked it off to take the
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- Pressure off this side.
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- You block here, pressure off here,
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- And that's what they did.
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- So they went in the operating room,
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- And another one of my mother's sisters was a nurse,
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- And she was allowed to go in there,
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- And when they re-routed your blood,
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- That's literally what happens.
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- Your blood is rerouted when this happens in your body.
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- When that happened, my dad died on the operating table,
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- But he was brought back to life, he had to recover,
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- And when he began to function again, my aunt, who'd been
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- There with him when he medically died, asked.
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- Said, "homer, do you know you died on the operating table?"
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- He said, "yes, i know that." he said, "i went to heaven."
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- He said, "i was in heaven, and everything was golden."
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- Now, let me tell you something.
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- A lot of people have all these spooky visions and stuff,
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- And i just look at 'em twice.
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- Do i have to tell you that was nothing like my dad.
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- He was a redneck among rednecks, a blue-collar guy,
- 00:22:40.639 --> 00:22:45.410
- No nonsense, period.
- 00:22:45.410 --> 00:22:47.913
- So, when my dad said he went to heaven
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- And all heaven was gold, you didn't have to say,
- 00:22:50.215 --> 00:22:52.651
- "i wonder if he really went," you knew.
- 00:22:52.651 --> 00:22:57.255
- But he said, "what troubled me was," he said,
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- "i wanted to stay, but i couldn't quite understand,
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- But i was a little baby."
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- He lived another 16 years.
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- I wish i could tell you he became a biblical scholar,
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- A giant, but he did not have that capacity.
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- But i can tell you he began to change as he got into scripture
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- The first time in his life.
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- And little subtle things we'd begin to notice,
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- Because i'm sure in his trip to heaven today,
- 00:23:32.057 --> 00:23:35.393
- He did not want to be a baby.
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- Oh, grow up in christ. grow up in christ.
- 00:23:40.899 --> 00:23:47.672
- That's what he's calling upon you and me to do,
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- Is to let the lord jesus christ continue to transform us.
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- Ed: if you're watching today and do not have
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- A personal relationship with jesus christ, take a time out.
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- I would invite you to say this prayer with me.
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- Now listen, if you do not know the lord jesus christ
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- Personally, the opportunity is here to know god through christ.
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- I'm gonna pray a prayer, and i trust the holy spirit will be
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- Leading you, and dealing with you right now.
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- Pray this prayer after me.
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- It's not my prayer, it's your prayer.
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- And i'll tell you something, marvelous will happen.
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- You'll begin your walk, your winning walk with jesus christ,
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- Personally and daily.
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- Bow your head, if you can, close your eyes.
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- This is your prayer.
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- If you can pray this prayer, led by the spirit, you do so.
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- Dear heavenly father, i thank you for staying with me.
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- I thank you for being there 24/7 in my life
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- When i didn't even know it.
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- But right now, that's right, pray it,
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- Right now, i confess my sin.
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- I turn from all known sin, and right now,
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- I invite jesus christ to come into my life.
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- Lord, thank you for saving me, for salvaging me,
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- For letting me have this experience with you right now to
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- Begin a new life, in jesus' name, amen.
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- A simple prayer, but that prayer, if meant sincerely,
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- Will be the best few minutes you spend in your entire life.
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- If you prayed that prayer with me for the first time,
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- We would love to hear from you.
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- If you prayed that prayer, and you weren't sure you were a
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- Christian before, and you prayed that prayer sincerely,
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- You've made to jesus christ.
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- And, let me invite you to tune in again next week as we
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- Continue to grow up together through the study of god's word
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