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Ed Young - Anxiety

August 12, 2025 | S25 E193 | 29:0

Ed Young - Anxiety
The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young is the international on-air and online teaching ministry of Dr. Ed Young. The Winning Walk proclaims the proven truth of God’s Word to give men and women the world over a winning way to live life.
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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Anxiety | August 12, 2025
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  • Ed young: "surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the
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  • Days of my life; and i will dwell in the house of the
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  • Lord forever."
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  • Doesn't that sound terrific?
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  • That's how it's supposed to be but, you see, we're so caught up
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  • In this world that we forget that we're citizens of another
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  • World, if we're in the family of god.
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  • If we keep that in mind, you'll be amazed how all the stress and
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  • Strife and tension will go away.
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  • We're not at home here, but we're so caught up in this
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  • World, it has us so much under it's control and it's strangling
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  • Many lives out of effectiveness, out of efficiency and out of the
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  • Joy that the lord god intends for his sons and daughters
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  • To have.
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  • Look at our scripture, just a couple of verses here as we look
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  • At this whole passage that deals with anxiety and worry.
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  • Verse 25, matthew 6, "for this reason," jesus says, "i say to
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  • You, do not be worried about your life."
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  • Is that clear enough?
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  • "do not be worried about your life, as to what you'll eat or
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  • What you will drink; or your body, as to what you will
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  • Put on."
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  • Do you know how much, last year, we spent in the united states
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  • Just on fashion?
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  • Between $200-300 billion, think about that.
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  • How much we've spent on on diet remedies, how to lose weight,
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  • Over $30 billion.
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  • Jesus says, "don't worry about your body," he gives a big
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  • Trinity of what you eat, what you drink, what you wear.
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  • Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
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  • He said, "look at the birds of the air, that they do not sow
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  • Nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly father
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  • Feeds them.
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  • Are you not worth more than they?"
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  • Jesus says, "don't worry about the things of life."
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  • Isn't that what we worry about, things?
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  • Sure it is.
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  • Clothes, "oh, how do i look?"
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  • What i eat, where i go, what i have, what people think
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  • About me.
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  • And we are caught up in the agenda of this materialistic
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  • Society in which you and i are called to live.
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  • Jesus said that's the reason we worry, don't worry about things,
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  • And he said, "look at the birds.
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  • You think the birds are worried about things and stuff?"
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  • And he uses the birds to illustrate his providence, the
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  • Providence of god.
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  • What is providence?
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  • You say, "well, it's the capitol of rhode island."
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  • That's good.
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  • What is providence?
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  • The word providence means, "to provide."
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  • And jesus is saying here, "look at the birds."
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  • Can't you see him teaching on the mount, seated on that rock,
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  • And some birds fly over and he says, "look at those birds."
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  • He said they're not worried because they're counting on the
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  • Providence of god, that god cares about them, and therefore
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  • We realize that we're in his hands.
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  • He said, "you're much more than birds."
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  • Anyone here think you're less than a bird?
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  • Our world is so mixed up that we treat animals like humans and
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  • Humans like animals, but i can tell you we are better than
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  • Birds, we're above birds.
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  • And jesus gives a wonderful argument here, from the lesser
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  • To the greater.
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  • He said, "if god prepares and looks after the birds," now they
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  • Have to work for food every single day, but they're not
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  • Concerned, they're not worried, they're not uptight.
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  • Why? they were created by god.
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  • How much more you and i are in the hand of god?
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  • Therefore, he has a will and a plan for a purpose for you and
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  • Me that he's going to carry out through his children.
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  • Let's talk a minute about the will of god, the plan of god for
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  • Every life.
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  • God has an intentional plan for every person here.
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  • Now most of us has missed god's intentional plan because of sin,
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  • Because of not listening, because of doing our own thing.
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  • Because, without understanding he wants to seek us and he wants
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  • To deal with us and he wants to guide us, we miss god's
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  • Intentional will.
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  • Therefore, in his circumstantial will, he always works out his
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  • Providence, in his purpose, in his sovereignty.
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  • His intentional will, we miss it, and his circumstantial will,
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  • We begin to get it, because his ultimate will will be
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  • Carried out.
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  • See, that's the providence of god, not that we are robots, but
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  • He puts us in the parameters of his blessing, of his leadership,
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  • As sons and daughters of his.
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  • Therefore he says, "don't worry," you're in the
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  • Providential hand of god.
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  • How can we worry?
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  • He takes care of birds, he's gonna take care of you, he's
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  • Going to take care of me.
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  • Look at the next thing he says, he says, also, why do we worry?
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  • He says, "and who of you," verse 27, "by being worried can add a
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  • Single hour to his life?
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  • And why are you worried about clothing?
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  • Observe how the lilies of the field grow; they do not toil nor
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  • Do they spin."
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  • What's he saying?
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  • He's saying now, "don't worry, look at the birds," they teach
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  • You about the providence, about the care of god, for birds and
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  • Of you.
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  • Now he says, "don't worry, look at the lilies of the field, look
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  • At the flowers," he said, "they don't live very long but they
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  • Are loved by god.
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  • If god so cares for flowers, and they have a short duration of
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  • Life, how much more he cares for you and me."
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  • He points the lilies and he talks about the love of god, we
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  • Don't worry because god loves us.
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  • How much does he love us?
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  • He sent his son to die for us.
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  • How long do we live?
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  • Forever.
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  • When life came, at conception in your mother's womb, god gave to
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  • Every one of us eternal life.
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  • Doesn't mean we're all sons and daughters of god, but he gave us
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  • Eternal life because every person, every soul, every spark,
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  • Created in the image of god, and that image of god will always
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  • Be alive.
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  • What's he say?
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  • Flowers don't last very long, do they?
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  • You know, they come and they go and they're used and they're
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  • Spent, some flowers bloom only one day and that's the only day
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  • They bloom.
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  • But he says god loves the flowers and takes care of the
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  • Flowers, gives the beauty of the flowers are more beautiful than
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  • Solomon, in all of his splendor, could ever build or imagine.
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  • He said that's how much god loves you.
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  • If he loves the flowers, makes them so beautiful just for a
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  • Brief period of time, how much more he loves you as a human
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  • Being, because he brought you and me into life to
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  • Live forever.
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  • You see the logic that's there?
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  • The birds, the providence of god, you don't have to worry;
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  • The lilies, the love of god, you don't have to worry.
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  • And then he says, "well who does worry?"
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  • And he has a little phrase here, you tend to miss it, i jumped
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  • Over it for a while, look what he says in the last verse here
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  • Of this passage.
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  • He says, last part of verse 30, he says, "you of little faith."
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  • He talks about people who have a little faith, if you were a
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  • Little faith people worry.
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  • You have any worries, any anxiety, anything you're upset
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  • About, anything that you're uptight about, anything that's
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  • Causing stress in your life?
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  • He said, if so, you are a little faith person.
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  • Now jesus used the phrase, "little faith," four times,
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  • Three times in matthew, once in luke.
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  • What does he mean by, "a little faith person"?
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  • Doesn't mean you have no faith, you have a little faith.
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  • A little faith person is someone who has recognized the holy
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  • Spirit is leading them and touching their lives and they
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  • Confess their sin, they turn from that sin, they invite jesus
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  • Christ in their life, they become a christian, that's a
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  • Little faith person.
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  • A little faith person is someone who is simply a christian who
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  • Knows that they have been saved, that's a little faith person.
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  • Now what's wrong with just knowing you've been saved?
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  • That's just half of the equation.
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  • I am saved, but he says i'm saved by faith.
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  • By the way, what is faith?
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  • A little faith person is someone who thinks faith does not
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  • Involve thinking.
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  • Are you like that?
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  • "well, i don't understand this, i don't know it and i can't
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  • Logically believe it but i'm going to accept it by faith, i'm
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  • Going to make just a leap of faith," boom, "into
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  • The darkness."
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  • You think that's what faith is?
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  • Lot of people do.
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  • Faith is, "man, i'm ignorant, i don't get it, it's beyond my
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  • Realm but i'm just gonna accept it, almost reluctantly,
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  • By faith."
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  • You think faith is a blind leap?
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  • It absolutely is the very opposite of that, faith involves
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  • Thinking, the foundation of faith is thinking.
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  • Hebrews 11 gives us the classic definition of faith.
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  • "faith is the," what?
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  • "is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of
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  • Things not seen."
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  • Substance sounds like you got to look at something, doesn't it?
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  • Evidence sounds like rational thinking.
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  • All of this scripture is involved around thinking as it
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  • Seeks to introduce us to faith.
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  • Look at verse 25, it says, "for this reason."
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  • Look at verse 28, it says, "observe."
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  • Look at verse 26, it says, "look."
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  • In other words, faith involves thinking, it's based on
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  • Evidence, on rational logic, it's based on one and two and
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  • Three and four, it is prescribed.
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  • So what is he saying?
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  • Little faith people just don't think.
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  • Are you a little faith person, that, "oh, i'm just saved and
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  • That's all i am, i'm just saved," you don't think.
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  • Think about something, what if there were a person who had
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  • Infinite wisdom?
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  • Follow me careful, infinite wisdom, and this person knew
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  • Everything about you when you were born, this person knows
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  • Everything about your life up to this point, this person even
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  • Knows when you're going to die.
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  • Now, would that person with, follow me, infinite wisdom be
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  • Able to give you good advice?
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  • Would he be able to comment on your life and on my life?
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  • You see, when we think, this is who god in jesus christ is.
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  • And what's the rest of this verse that is here?
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  • He says we worry about all of these things because we forget
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  • That we have a heavenly father who knows what we need before
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  • We ask.
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  • No one, paul says in romans, can pray, "abba, father," unless
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  • They're in the family of god, unless they're christian.
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  • By the way, this is for christians, and those who worry,
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  • And they are christians, it means they are a little faith
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  • People but you're living your life as an unbeliever.
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  • You got it?
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  • You're living your life as if you have no heavenly father.
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  • Therefore, if you have worry and strife and tension and pressure
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  • On your life that's just eating you up inside and outside, makes
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  • You on edge, makes you just have a temper, makes you angry, makes
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  • You want to control everything, makes you upset at everything,
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  • It means that you are living your life, you may be a
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  • Christian, you have a little faith christian, but you're not
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  • A big faith christian.
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  • Now what is the difference in that?
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  • Here's a little faith christian.
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  • They believe that jesus is god's son, they received him in their
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  • Life, they believe on jesus but they don't believe jesus, they
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  • Believe in god but they don't believe god, and therefore, you
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  • Are a little faith worrier, even though you might be a christian,
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  • Because you're living as an unbeliever.
  • 00:13:33.993 --> 00:13:36.395
  • How does this work practically?
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  • Here's a couple, they're going to get married, he's a
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  • Christian, she is not a christian.
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  • Personal counseling with him and you nailed down the fact, are
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  • You a christian?
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  • Have you received christ?
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  • "absolutely, i believe in jesus, i've received him as my savior,
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  • I am a christian."
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  • All right, you believe in jesus, you believe on jesus, do you
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  • Believe jesus?
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  • There's a question.
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  • I believe on jesus, i'm a christian, little faith, but do
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  • You believe jesus?
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  • And i say to this man, jesus says you are not to marry this
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  • Woman because this woman, this gal, is not a christian.
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  • Oh, you believe on jesus, you believe in jesus, but do you
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  • Believe jesus?
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  • You believe in god, you believe on god, but do you believe god?
  • 00:14:29.715 --> 00:14:33.986
  • And a lot of people believe on and believe in and they have
  • 00:14:33.986 --> 00:14:37.156
  • Little faith people, but they're not big faith people because
  • 00:14:37.156 --> 00:14:40.559
  • They don't believe god, they don't believe jesus.
  • 00:14:40.559 --> 00:14:43.329
  • See, if jesus is the son of god, ladies and gentlemen, what he
  • 00:14:43.329 --> 00:14:49.301
  • Teaches us is the genius and the formula for life that's
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  • Worry free.
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  • Now this doesn't mean we don't have concern, it doesn't mean we
  • 00:14:57.309 --> 00:15:00.112
  • Don't have problems, it doesn't mean we don't pray about things,
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  • But it means that we are above the affairs of this life, that
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  • Our citizenship is not of this world.
  • 00:15:08.654 --> 00:15:12.358
  • Therefore, we think differently, we see differently and we
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  • Operate differently, and worry doesn't beat us up and tear us
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  • Down and cripple us through life.
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  • We are not only little faith people, we become
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  • Big faith people.
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  • How do you become big faith people?
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  • The book clearly tells us, jesus says the rest of the passage.
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  • He says, "but seek ye first the kingdom of god and his
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  • Righteousness, and all these things," that we're worried
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  • About, "will be added to us.
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  • So do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will take care
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  • Of itself.
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  • Each day has enough trouble for its own."
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  • Are you an if-only person?
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  • Oh, if only this accident hadn't happened, if only i hadn't been
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  • Involved in that relationship, if only i had married someone
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  • Else, if only we had not moved there, if only, if only,
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  • If only.
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  • You're worried about yesterday, your whole life is an if-only
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  • Life, you're living on the basis of tragedy or joy or success
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  • Or sorrow.
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  • A if-only life is living in yesterday and you'll be filled
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  • With anxiety.
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  • Or are you living a what-if life?
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  • Oh, what if this happens?
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  • Oh, what if this doesn't?
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  • What if my son, what if my daughter, what if my friends?
  • 00:16:31.937 --> 00:16:34.440
  • What if, what if, what if?
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  • And you're just trying to live in tomorrow, you can't do
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  • Anything about tomorrow.
  • 00:16:39.812 --> 00:16:41.280
  • If-only people live yesterday, what-if people live on the basis
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  • Of the words and the fears of tomorrow.
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  • Jesus says, "hey, get your priorities right, put the
  • 00:16:48.454 --> 00:16:51.857
  • Kingdom of god first, and his righteousness and righteous
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  • Living, and all these other things."
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  • What will i eat?
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  • What will i wear?
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  • What will i have?
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  • What will i afford?
  • 00:17:01.700 --> 00:17:03.035
  • Where will i go?
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  • What will i do?
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  • All these things will be added according to our ability to have
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  • Responsibility for what he entrusts us with.
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  • You see, so we're not to worry, we're not to be worriers.
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  • What i'm saying, what jesus is saying, you know what all
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  • This is?
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  • It's common sense, is it not?
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  • Is there anything here irrational, way over the top?
  • 00:17:26.058 --> 00:17:30.095
  • It's common sense.
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  • If we're in the hands of almighty god, he is omniscient,
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  • Omnipotent, omnipresent, all-loving, if we're in the
  • 00:17:37.069 --> 00:17:41.206
  • Providential care of god, and if god loves us with a love that
  • 00:17:41.206 --> 00:17:47.746
  • Will never let us go, in the sense he gave the best he had in
  • 00:17:47.746 --> 00:17:52.184
  • Heaven for us.
  • 00:17:52.184 --> 00:17:54.086
  • I mean, listen, it is totally irrational, we're not thinking
  • 00:17:54.086 --> 00:17:59.491
  • When we worry, when we're just little faith people.
  • 00:17:59.491 --> 00:18:02.461
  • "oh i'm saved, oh, i believe on jesus," but when we don't
  • 00:18:02.461 --> 00:18:07.166
  • Believe jesus, as he teaches us the genius of life, when he
  • 00:18:07.166 --> 00:18:12.037
  • Knows the front from the back and the middle.
  • 00:18:12.037 --> 00:18:16.508
  • You see, god is before us, god is after us, god is our right
  • 00:18:16.508 --> 00:18:21.280
  • Hand, god is our left hand, god is above us, god is below us,
  • 00:18:21.280 --> 00:18:25.517
  • And god in christ is in us.
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  • Do you have any problems?
  • 00:18:27.486 --> 00:18:30.789
  • How can anybody who has any common sense have any problems,
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  • Have any fear of death, any worry about the length of life,
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  • Any worry about the things of life?
  • 00:18:40.599 --> 00:18:44.436
  • Common sense says, "worry is eliminated," common sense.
  • 00:18:44.436 --> 00:18:48.907
  • By the way, let me tell you something about common sense.
  • 00:18:48.907 --> 00:18:52.244
  • This was in the london times a few weeks back, it's
  • 00:18:52.244 --> 00:18:57.816
  • An obituary.
  • 00:18:57.816 --> 00:19:00.285
  • It seems that common sense died and this is the obituary in the
  • 00:19:00.285 --> 00:19:06.058
  • London times.
  • 00:19:06.058 --> 00:19:07.392
  • "today, we mourn the passing of the beloved old friend, 'common
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  • Sense,' who has been with us for many years.
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  • No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records
  • 00:19:14.032 --> 00:19:17.936
  • Were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape.
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  • He'll be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons
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  • As: knowing when to come in out of the rain; why the early bird
  • 00:19:25.410 --> 00:19:30.616
  • Gets the worm; and life isn't always fair; and maybe it was
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  • My fault.
  • 00:19:35.654 --> 00:19:37.856
  • Common sense lived by simple, and sound financial policies
  • 00:19:37.856 --> 00:19:42.194
  • (don't spend more than you earn)
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  • And reliable strategies (adults, not children, are in charge.)
  • 00:19:45.497 --> 00:19:51.203
  • Common sense's health began to deteriorate rapidly when
  • 00:19:51.203 --> 00:19:54.473
  • Well-intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place.
  • 00:19:54.473 --> 00:19:58.977
  • Reports of a six year-old boy charged with sexual harassment
  • 00:19:58.977 --> 00:20:03.582
  • For kissing a classmate."
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  • Man, i would be put in jail when i was six.
  • 00:20:06.318 --> 00:20:10.822
  • "teens suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch; a
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  • Teacher fined for a reprimanding an unruly student, only worsened
  • 00:20:17.296 --> 00:20:22.334
  • His condition.
  • 00:20:22.334 --> 00:20:24.303
  • Common sense lost ground when parents attacked teachers for
  • 00:20:24.303 --> 00:20:27.939
  • Doing the job that they themselves had failed to do in
  • 00:20:27.939 --> 00:20:30.742
  • Disciplining their unruly children.
  • 00:20:30.742 --> 00:20:32.878
  • Common sense declined even further when schools were
  • 00:20:32.878 --> 00:20:36.448
  • Required to get parental consent to administer sun lotion and an
  • 00:20:36.448 --> 00:20:41.353
  • Aspirin to a student; but could not inform parents when a
  • 00:20:41.353 --> 00:20:45.557
  • Student became pregnant and wanting to have an abortion.
  • 00:20:45.557 --> 00:20:49.928
  • Common sense lost the will to live as the church is became
  • 00:20:49.928 --> 00:20:53.832
  • Businesses; and criminals received better treatment than
  • 00:20:53.832 --> 00:20:57.069
  • Their victims.
  • 00:20:57.069 --> 00:20:59.271
  • Common sense took a beating when you couldn't defend yourself
  • 00:20:59.271 --> 00:21:02.774
  • From a burglar in your own home and the burglar could sue you
  • 00:21:02.774 --> 00:21:07.412
  • For assault...
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  • Common sense was preceded in death, by his parents, truth and
  • 00:21:10.248 --> 00:21:14.119
  • Trust, and by his wife, discretion, and by his daughter,
  • 00:21:14.119 --> 00:21:19.057
  • Responsibility, and by his son, reason."
  • 00:21:19.057 --> 00:21:21.560
  • They died before common sense.
  • 00:21:21.560 --> 00:21:24.329
  • "he is survived by four stepbrothers; i know my rights;
  • 00:21:24.329 --> 00:21:29.101
  • I want it now; everyone else is to blame; and i'm a victim.
  • 00:21:29.101 --> 00:21:34.973
  • Not many attended the funeral of common sense because so few
  • 00:21:34.973 --> 00:21:38.977
  • Recognized he was gone.
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  • If you remember him, pass this on.
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  • If not, join the majority and do nothing."
  • 00:21:43.849 --> 00:21:47.786
  • Would anybody like common sense?
  • 00:21:47.786 --> 00:21:52.657
  • Anybody like common sense? would you want it?
  • 00:21:52.657 --> 00:21:55.127
  • Do you want it?
  • 00:21:55.127 --> 00:21:56.461
  • Right-right, it belongs to you, common sense.
  • 00:21:56.461 --> 00:22:01.099
  • Jesus is just giving us common sense, is he not?
  • 00:22:01.099 --> 00:22:06.671
  • Common sense says that, "christians should not worry."
  • 00:22:06.671 --> 00:22:09.040
  • If you're a little faith christian, you're living like an
  • 00:22:09.040 --> 00:22:11.376
  • Unbeliever, oh yeah, you need to worry.
  • 00:22:11.376 --> 00:22:13.712
  • But if you're a big faith christian, you not only believe
  • 00:22:13.712 --> 00:22:16.882
  • On jesus, you simply believe jesus.
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  • Let me bring it down to a low-low level, we'll all get it.
  • 00:22:22.320 --> 00:22:26.591
  • There's this dog that was horribly treated, kicked,
  • 00:22:26.591 --> 00:22:31.596
  • Abused, not fed properly, matted hair, burned with cigarettes by
  • 00:22:31.596 --> 00:22:40.939
  • Those who cared for the dog as a humorous thing.
  • 00:22:40.939 --> 00:22:45.844
  • Pitiful in condition, the dog would be in the little cage just
  • 00:22:45.844 --> 00:22:48.613
  • Shaking, trembling all the time.
  • 00:22:48.613 --> 00:22:50.882
  • The dog refused to eat any food or drink anything when the light
  • 00:22:50.882 --> 00:22:54.553
  • Was on, he would eat and drink only at night out of fear.
  • 00:22:54.553 --> 00:22:58.657
  • Horribly abused, tail always between his legs, he'd wet
  • 00:22:58.657 --> 00:23:05.163
  • Himself when someone would come in the room.
  • 00:23:05.163 --> 00:23:08.233
  • And then there came this man who rescued him, kind of a
  • 00:23:08.233 --> 00:23:12.471
  • Dog whisperer.
  • 00:23:12.471 --> 00:23:13.805
  • You follow me?
  • 00:23:13.805 --> 00:23:15.507
  • And this man took that little dog in with of the cage and
  • 00:23:15.507 --> 00:23:18.543
  • While he was shaking began to talk with him, soothing words,
  • 00:23:18.543 --> 00:23:21.746
  • Comforting words.
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  • The dog would have none of it.
  • 00:23:23.415 --> 00:23:24.783
  • He finally got a leash on him and pulled him out and the dog
  • 00:23:24.783 --> 00:23:28.453
  • Snapped and growled and barked and snarled at him until the man
  • 00:23:28.453 --> 00:23:32.057
  • Got down on all fours.
  • 00:23:32.057 --> 00:23:34.693
  • Little dog was totally frightened and then he began to
  • 00:23:34.693 --> 00:23:37.429
  • Talk soothingly to him, try to offer him treats he
  • 00:23:37.429 --> 00:23:39.865
  • Wouldn't take.
  • 00:23:39.865 --> 00:23:41.399
  • Finally, he got the little dog and a corner, the little dog was
  • 00:23:41.399 --> 00:23:43.468
  • So fearful, so frightened, the literally just fainted,
  • 00:23:43.468 --> 00:23:46.471
  • Passed out.
  • 00:23:46.471 --> 00:23:48.573
  • And the man went over there to him, began to pet him while he
  • 00:23:48.573 --> 00:23:52.010
  • Was unconscious, and sooth him.
  • 00:23:52.010 --> 00:23:54.112
  • And when he came to, the little dog just rolled over on its
  • 00:23:54.112 --> 00:23:56.748
  • Back, total submission.
  • 00:23:56.748 --> 00:23:59.818
  • And the man got close to him, the dog would smell him.
  • 00:23:59.818 --> 00:24:03.488
  • He would pet him and love him and say words to him, fed him a
  • 00:24:03.488 --> 00:24:07.125
  • Little treat.
  • 00:24:07.125 --> 00:24:09.060
  • The dog stop shaking just for a moment, the first time ever.
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  • Move ahead.
  • 00:24:16.301 --> 00:24:18.403
  • Now you have the cutest little dog you've ever seen.
  • 00:24:18.403 --> 00:24:22.073
  • I mean, he's well groomed, he's well cared for, he is happy and
  • 00:24:22.073 --> 00:24:25.944
  • He stays with that master 24/7.
  • 00:24:25.944 --> 00:24:31.550
  • You see, the dog found a savior and discovered that he could
  • 00:24:31.550 --> 00:24:37.889
  • Trust that savior for everything in his life.
  • 00:24:37.889 --> 00:24:45.230
  • Now, commonsense tells us,
  • 00:24:45.230 --> 00:24:52.771
  • If this is true of birds and lilies
  • 00:24:52.771 --> 00:24:56.207
  • And flowers and dogs, how much more of our heavenly father who
  • 00:24:56.207 --> 00:25:03.348
  • Saves us, whom we can trust in our obedience for everything in
  • 00:25:03.348 --> 00:25:09.921
  • Our lives?
  • 00:25:09.921 --> 00:25:11.957
  • Sum it all up, trust and obey, for there's no other way to be
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  • Happy in jesus but to have big faith.
  • 00:25:20.098 --> 00:25:27.372
  • Trust and obey.
  • 00:25:27.372 --> 00:25:31.042
  • Ed: there's never been a better time than right
  • 00:25:33.478 --> 00:25:36.014
  • Now to make god a priority in your life.
  • 00:25:36.014 --> 00:25:39.584
  • That's why we've created this 90 day devotional, "putting god
  • 00:25:39.584 --> 00:25:43.722
  • First," number one.
  • 00:25:43.722 --> 00:25:45.523
  • And when you and i do that, he is faithful to give the
  • 00:25:45.523 --> 00:25:48.627
  • Direction of guidance you and i need every day to
  • 00:25:48.627 --> 00:25:51.997
  • Walk through life.
  • 00:25:51.997 --> 00:25:53.565
  • It is my prayer that this devotional will help you to
  • 00:25:53.565 --> 00:25:55.967
  • Become all that god has designed you to become.
  • 00:25:55.967 --> 00:26:00.305
  • Male announcer: call today or go online at winningwalk.org to get
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  • Your copy of dr. young's 90 day devotional "putting god first."
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  • Ed: would you like god to talk with you audibly?
  • 00:26:11.516 --> 00:26:15.086
  • Boy, that would be something, wouldn't it?
  • 00:26:15.086 --> 00:26:17.188
  • All you have to do is read the bible out loud.
  • 00:26:17.188 --> 00:26:21.359
  • That's god's word speaking to you
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  • And to me audibly every time we do it.
  • 00:26:23.862 --> 00:26:28.400
  • Listen, we are created and called to be worshipers.
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  • God has placed in the heart of every man
  • 00:26:31.302 --> 00:26:33.405
  • And woman a desire to worship.
  • 00:26:33.405 --> 00:26:36.307
  • And as christ followers, we can begin today
  • 00:26:36.307 --> 00:26:39.077
  • To make praising god with our whole hearts a part
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  • Of our daily routine.
  • 00:26:42.380 --> 00:26:44.683
  • A good place to begin is by choosing psalms
  • 00:26:44.683 --> 00:26:47.519
  • That offer worship to god and reading them to him
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  • And saying them in your own words.
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  • I find doing this helps me to praise god
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  • And to express my gratitude
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  • For the blessings in my own life.
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  • And remember, whenever we do this, we're being true
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  • To god's primary purpose in creating you and creating me.
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  • What is that?
  • 00:27:10.075 --> 00:27:11.643
  • To be worshipers.
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  • ♪♪♪
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