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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - The Amazing Love of God | December 19, 2024
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- Ed young: in 1878 some archaeologists were digging
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- Around in the sands of egypt, and they ran into an obelisk
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- With hieroglyphics written on it, and they translated the
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- Hieroglyphics and they discovered a civilization,
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- A culture, a nation, that heretofore nobody knew
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- Anything about.
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- And so, as they did in those days, the british took this
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- Artifact from egypt and transported it to london, they
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- Named it cleopatra's needle, and they erected it by
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- The thames river.
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- At the same time, some englishman said, you know, there
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- May come a day when london will be flattened, the british isles
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- Will no longer exists, and people may wonder what kind of
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- Life we had here.
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- So they put together a time vault, buried it under
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- Cleopatra's needle there by the thames, and they put in it the
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- London phone book, they put in it pieces of clothing, they put
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- It in accounts of how they ran their government.
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- And finally, they were thinking of all the stuff they could put
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- In, they put some toys in it, they said you know, we need to
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- Pick out one religious verse and put it in this time vault so
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- They'll know something about what we believed.
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- Now, can you imagine a debate that followed?
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- Which verse, which word, what religion?
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- And they debated it for a long time until they finally decided
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- On one verse.
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- You could probably guess what it is.
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- It's the only verse most of us can quote outside of
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- "jesus wept."
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- John 3:16.
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- And john 3:16, ladies and gentlemen, is the pivotal verse
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- In the bible, the old testament, the new testament comes together
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- And in that brief, succinct verse, you have a magnificent
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- Summary of christianity and what it means to be a christian.
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- The problem with it is that we all know it, the problem with
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- It, we've become jaded in quoting it, and we've never,
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- Most of us, perhaps sat down and looked at that verse and say,
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- "lord, what are you saying to me?
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- What are you saying to the world?"
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- Every time you come to the word love, with few exceptions, the
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- Cross is not far away, as you read the bible, look at it, in
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- The new testament, you see love, you see the cross, because there
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- Is no better demonstration of love than god dying for us, in
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- Christ, on that cross.
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- And we see with john 3:16, there's a reference to, "if i be
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- Lifted up," one verse separates that, which john says
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- You must be born again to have eternal life,
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- And then he gives us john 3:16, let's look at it.
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- For god so loved the world, god, omnipotent,
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- Omniscient, omnipresent.
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- All the names of god, adonai, elohim, all the names of god,
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- All the attributes of god, god.
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- So, by the way, the word so there is one of those
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- Pregnant words.
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- You know what a pregnant word is?
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- It's a word that has deep meaning that you might overlook,
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- You find when you're reading the scripture, you look for a little
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- Pregnant words that will grow and expand and they mean more
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- Than you think they mean, and that's that little word so.
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- Houtos, it means god so lavishly, god lavishly loved the
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- World, and god loved the world more than anybody has ever loved
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- The world and more than we can understand how much he loves
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- The world.
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- God lavishly loves.
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- We say, "we love," it's the word agape, it's a greek word means
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- Sacrificial love, but let's try to understand something of the
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- Extent of god's love.
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- Read the book of hosea, great little book.
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- God tells hosea to go and marry gomer, she's a beautiful gal,
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- But he said gomer is going to be unfaithful to you, she's going
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- To commit adultery, and she's going to break your heart,
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- But you go marry her anyway, and hosea did.
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- It was a study through hosea's home life, his marriage, of how
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- The israelites had fallen away from being obedient to god
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- Though god had loved and blessed them phenomenally.
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- And so it's a picture of the love of god.
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- Gomer had an affair, gomer left hosea, moved in with one man,
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- Married him, another man, married him, another man, until
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- Finally, she was just living with a man of the streets who
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- Was just as immoral and decadent as she was, and this man the
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- Streets could not even support her in clothes and food.
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- So god says to hosea you go and give support of food and clothes
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- And money to this sorry bum that is now living with your wife,
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- And don't let your wife know that you're the source of her
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- Basics that she needs to live.
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- Isn't that something?
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- And hosea did that, hosea did that, but finally, he threw
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- Gomer away, and gomer ends up on the slave block, and when they
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- Auctioned off slaves in jerusalem in that day, they
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- Stripped them naked.
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- You can imagine the disease, the dirt, how she looked, emaciated.
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- She stood there being auctioned off, the auctioneer said, "what
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- Am i bid for this woman?"
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- Somebody said, "three shekels of gold."
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- Is that all?
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- "oh, six shekels of gold," yes, yes.
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- "seven shekels of gold," i hear you over there.
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- "eight," "nine," until finally, hosea, instructed by god to go
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- And buy back his wife from the slave market, he says,
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- "15 shekels of gold."
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- All the other bidders got quiet, but then someone, old good old
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- Boy there said, "15 shekels of gold and a bushel of barley,"
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- And hosea said, "i bid 15 shekels of gold and a bushel and
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- A half of barley," and the auctioneer said, "sold."
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- And so hosea came up and covered his wife and took her out, and
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- God instructed him to love her, to restore her, to honor her,
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- And to bless her as his wife.
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- Ladies and gentlemen, that's a little picture of how much god
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- Loves each and every one of us.
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- God loves the world, did you get that?
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- Did you know that god loved they ayatollah khamenei just as much
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- As he loved mother teresa?
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- Did you know that?
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- God loved billy graham just as much as he loved adolf hitler,
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- Did you know that?
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- God is no respecter of persons, he loves the person drugged out,
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- Living on the street as much as he loves a multizillionaire with
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- 16 different houses and 200 airplanes.
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- Understand that god loves the whole world with no partiality.
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- [congregation applauding]
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- God so loved the world.
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- Now, we got that much, staggering to some.
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- What did he do?
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- How do we know he loves the world this much?
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- Because he gave his only begotten son--and the word gave
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- Or give there is a different word.
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- It's not like i give you a gift, here's your birthday,
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- Here's a tie.
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- It's not like we give a gift, it's like in the lord's prayer,
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- "give us this day our daily bread."
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- That give there says we have to have bread in order
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- To stay alive.
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- That's the same word for give there.
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- God gave, for god so loved the world he gave that which is
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- An absolute necessity for us to live and that is his
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- Only begotten son.
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- Now, only begotten is sort of a king james type biblical word.
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- It means god gave that which is unique, that which is unlike any
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- Other gift.
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- You know what god gave us?
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- Follow me, one third of the trinity, how about that?
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- God the father, god the son, god the holy spirit, he gave
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- His son.
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- Who is his son?
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- Not in a biological way.
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- Jesus is god wrapped up in human flesh.
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- God gave his unique, only begotten son.
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- Demonstrating his love, he gave that son, he offered that son,
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- He allowed that son to enter into time and space and history.
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- That's magnificent love, supernatural love.
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- "for god so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son."
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- And here's the one, "whosoever."
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- That's in the king james, whosoever.
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- Modern translations say whoever, but i think they mess up.
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- They leave off a little greek word so, and the word so we read
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- Before, god so, remember it's lavish?
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- But this word so means anytime, anywhere, anyplace, anytime,
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- Any situation, god is always the god of love.
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- You can't escape god's love, you can't earn god's love, but you
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- Can reject god's love.
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- That's the free will that you and i have, freewill to choose.
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- "he gave his only begotten son that whosoever--"
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- Anybody, anywhere, anytime--
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- "believes in him will not perish but have everlasting life."
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- You know how long everlasting life is?
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- I can tell you.
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- Maybe a few of us have seen the rock of gibraltar.
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- I've seen it, gigantic rock, man, people live there,
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- It's something.
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- As long as it would take pigeon to land on gibraltar--and they
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- Got a lot of them there, by the way--and take his beak and
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- Begin to rub on that giant, giant rock, as long as it would
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- Take him to rub so long that that rock became just sand--how
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- Much time that would take one nanosecond would've gone by
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- In eternity.
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- That's how long eternity is, it's like forever.
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- "for god so loved the world that he gave his only unique begotten
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- Son that whosoever believes in him will not perish, but they'll
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- Live forever."
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- Quite a verse.
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- Now, that's john 3:16, but you know jesus keeps on speaking in
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- Verse 17, 18, 19, 20, and 21, five more verses.
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- You know what has happened to us?
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- We stopped at john 3:16 and we said, "boy, it is the everest,
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- It is the top," we've forgotten to look at those following five
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- Verses, and they are a part of one of the greatest chapters in
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- The bible, which is john chapter 3.
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- And those five verses, you know what they do?
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- They explain john 3:16.
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- So we won't just go over the words, we'll know exactly
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- What is being taught by the son of god.
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- So let's look at those verses, they are very, very important,
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- And we're gonna just take a look at four words, four key words
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- You find in john 3:16.
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- And the first word is world, it's mentioned twice in john 17,
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- And then believe is mentioned three times in the next verse,
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- And then from there to 21, it's talking about judgment, it's
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- Talking about perishing.
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- Look what we learn from the word world, look at john 3:17, "for
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- God did not send the son into the world to judge the world but
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- That the world might be saved through him."
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- What does that say?
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- It says that jesus came to the world not to judge us--there
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- Will be a day for that in his second coming--but he came into
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- The world not to judge us but that the world through him might
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- Be salvaged, restored for the purpose for which it was made.
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- Each one of us, we're salvaged in this life, and we're saved
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- In eternity.
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- He came so that through him we might be okay, salvaged.
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- Now, have you heard somebody say, "how can a god of love send
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- Anybody to hell?"
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- Let me remind you biblically, theologically, god never sends
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- Anybody to hell.
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- He never does that.
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- Jesus has died for all your trash and all of my trash so
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- That if we choose to go to hell, god doesn't send us, we've got
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- To go over the body that he has provided, he has died for us so
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- We will never condemn ourselves to eternal separation from god.
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- Isn't that beautiful?
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- He came into the world to redeem, to save.
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- We know there's creation, there's the fall, and
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- There's redemption.
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- He came in the redemption motif to salvage us now and to save us
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- In eternity.
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- So we looked at the word world that helps us understand the
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- Word world in john 3:16, and then we see the word believe,
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- Look at it.
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- John 3:18, "he that believes in him is not judged, he who does
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- Not believe has been judged already because he has not
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- Believed in the name of the only begotten of the father."
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- What is that about? it's about to believe.
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- People are going believe on the lord jesus christ.
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- What does believe mean?
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- Well, i'd have to know all the facts.
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- A lot of us know the facts, is that enough?
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- To believe, three times in one verse jesus said believe, what
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- In the world does believe mean?
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- I believe, what do you believe?
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- What does it mean to believe?
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- In the new hebrides islands way down in the south pacific,
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- A missionary went there by name of john paton.
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- Now, for 2,000 years, virtually no one visited the new hebrides,
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- And it was an isolated place in the world, but paton went there
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- As a missionary, and he was trying to introduce the natives
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- To god and to christ, which they knew nothing about.
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- So he realized he'd have to have a bible and translate a bible
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- And take their language and find the words and write a bible so
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- They'd have a written understanding of what it meant
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- To be a son and a daughter of god.
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- So he listened to them as they would speak and he would pick up
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- Words from their language and he would realize that matches the
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- Word in the bible, but he couldn't find a word for faith
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- Or word for believe.
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- Now, if you're translating the bible and you don't find a word
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- For faith and believe, i don't know how you'll get along.
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- So he kept listening and listening, couldn't find a word
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- For believe.
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- Finally, one day, he and another indian man, they went out
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- Hunting, they went way up in the mountains, they shot a big deer,
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- And he took that deer and they put it on a pole and they made
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- Their way laboriously, four or five hours down those mountain
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- Trails carrying that big deer.
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- And finally, they moved to the beach home where the missionary
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- Lived and they went there and they dropped the pole and the
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- Deer, and the native went over and just fell into a chair on
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- The porch, and he said, "it is so good to be stretched out here
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- And rest."
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- It is so good to be stretched out here and rest.
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- And the missionary, john paton, says, "i've got my word."
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- He said that in the language of new hebrides, it is so good to
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- Be stretched out here and rest, he said that's my word
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- For believe.
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- For god so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son
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- That whoever stretches out on jesus and rests shall be saved.
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- It's to put our full trust in him, to believe his atoning
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- Death for us, to understand he's given to us the genius of life,
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- It's a stretch-out fully on him.
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- That's to believe, that's to believe.
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- Whoever believes in him.
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- Oh, that's a big word.
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- And then the last word, we have the last three verses here, is
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- The word perish, or we'd say the word judgment.
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- Look at it, verse 19, "this is the judgment that the light has
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- Come into the world."
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- What is the light of the world?
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- It's jesus, jesus came and he lighted up the world.
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- "has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather
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- Than the light, for their deeds were evil.
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- So everyone who does evil hates the light and does not come to
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- The light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.
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- But he who practices the truth comes to the light so that his
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- Deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in god."
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- What is that about?
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- It says that jesus came and gave light in the world, but the
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- World enjoys darkness.
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- What is darkness? the absence of light.
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- "as long as jesus was not in the world, the light in the world
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- Was dim, but jesus came and gave light."
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- And what happens when you put light down in a hole?
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- Watch all the roaches run.
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- Jesus is the light of the world.
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- He came to cast out darkness individually in your life and in
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- My life, and wherever we go and wherever he goes, he casts
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- Out darkness.
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- Darkness is the absence of light, and god came and
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- Gave light.
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- And therefore where light comes, he came not to judge or condemn,
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- He came to turn on the lights.
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- And he's bidding for every one of us.
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- We're all on the auction block, have you noticed?
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- And god in jesus christ is bidding for us.
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- He says, "i bid my son, i put him there, i love him and he
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- Loves you."
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- He's providing for your life to be alive and to be a light to
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- The world.
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- Twas battered and scarred and the auctioneer thought it
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- Scarcely worth his while to waste much time on the old
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- Violin, but he held it up with a smile, "what am i bidding,
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- Good folk?"
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- He cried, "who will start the bidding for me?
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- A dollar, only two? who'll make it three?
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- Oh, $3 once, $3 twice, going for only 3."
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- But no, from the room far back, a gray-haired man came forward
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- And picked up the bow and tightened the strings
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- On the old violin.
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- He played a melody pure and sweet, as sweet as the
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- Angel sings.
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- The music ceased and the auctioneer, with a voice that
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- Was quiet and low, said, "now, what am i bid for the
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- Old violin?"
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- And he held it up with a bow, "a thousand dollars, $2,000?
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- Who'll make it three?
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- $3,000 once, $3,000 twice, going and gone," cried he.
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- The people cheered, but some of them cried.
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- We do not quite understand what changed its worth.
- 00:22:58.590 --> 00:23:04.463
- Quick came the reply, "the touch of the master's hand."
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- And many a man with life out of tune is battered and torn with
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- Sin is auctioned cheap to the thoughtless crowd much like that
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- Old violin.
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- A bowl of pottage, a glass of wine, a game, and he travels on,
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- He's going once, he's going twice, he's almost gone, but the
- 00:23:24.516 --> 00:23:29.387
- Master comes and the foolish crowd can never quite understand
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- The worth of a soul, and the change that's wrought by the
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- Touch of the master's hand.
- 00:23:42.801 --> 00:23:48.840
- Ed young: we have all felt alone.
- 00:23:50.842 --> 00:23:53.678
- Even jesus experienced loneliness during his time
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- On earth.
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- But god did not create us to live in
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- A constant state of loneliness.
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- We need community and fellowship
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- With others for our emotional and physical well-being.
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- Listen, if you are experiencing loneliness today,
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- We have created a booklet
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- That will help you overcome the lonely seasons in your life.
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- Within these pages, you'll find some practical steps to overcome
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- Loneliness and to live in fellowship with others.
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- Call today and experience freedom from the
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- Prison of loneliness.
- 00:24:42.360 --> 00:24:45.530
- Ed young: what is our greatest need?
- 00:24:48.099 --> 00:24:50.969
- It is to know god and to be confident that he also knows us.
- 00:24:50.969 --> 00:24:56.107
- We're not truly ready to live or ready to die until we know for
- 00:24:56.107 --> 00:24:59.578
- Sure that we are officially in god's family.
- 00:24:59.578 --> 00:25:03.848
- Well, how do you do that?
- 00:25:03.848 --> 00:25:06.818
- By recognizing and realizing that you and i are sinners and
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- That we have missed the mark and by turning from that sin
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- And asking jesus to come into our lives.
- 00:25:15.493 --> 00:25:19.164
- He doesn't just straighten us up and straighten us out, he cleans
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- Us up and keeps on cleaning us up day after day after day.
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- Then he gives you the assurance that you are a child of god in
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- The family of god, a member of his supernatural family.
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- Listen, if the holy spirit is leading you to take a moment
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- And pray this simple prayer after me.
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- Now, it's not my prayer, it's your prayer directly to
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- The father.
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- It will be the first step to becoming brand new
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- Inside and out.
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- As he leads, would you pray this prayer after me?
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- Dear heavenly father, i've been away from you, and now i want to
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- Come home to you.
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- I want a new life, i want a clean life, i wanna be forgiven.
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- And lord, right now i confess to you all of that stuff that is
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- Fouled up my life, sin.
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- And right now, heavenly father, i turn away from all that sin,"
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- That's right, just pray it.
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- "and right now i ask jesus christ to come and fill up my
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- Life with himself and give me a new life inside that will be
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- Expressed outside, that's right.
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- In jesus's name.
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- Listen, if you prayed that simple prayer sincerely, call
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- The number on your screen, and we'd be delighted to hear from
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- You and to rejoice with you about the decision you just
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- Made, and we will begin to explain it, and it'll come alive
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- And you'll see how eternally valuable it is.
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- And let me personally, also, thank you for watching today,
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- And please join us next week right here on "the winning walk"
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- With jesus christ.
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- ♪♪♪
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