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Ed Young - Is Anybody Up There?

October 2, 2025 | 29:0

Ed Young - Is Anybody Up There?
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 - Is Anybody Up There? | October 2, 2025
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  • Pastor ed young: the question: is anything up there?
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  • Is there anything out there?
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  • Is there something like us, yet beyond us, more than us?
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  • That's been asked in millions of different ways by people
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  • All through history.
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  • Is there another?
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  • Is there life in the house of life?
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  • G. studdert kennedy, one of the great men of the last
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  • Generation, tells of a moment in his life when he was out by the
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  • Sea on a moor, it was night and all you could hear was the
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  • Crashing of the waves on the cliff.
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  • And he looked up in the starry heavens, myriad of stars, and he
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  • Said, he felt a presence.
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  • He felt another there and he said, he wanted to shout, who
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  • Goes there?
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  • But he said, i was afraid, i didn't know, but i knew this
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  • Presence was there.
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  • He said, i felt like that again when i was in no-man's-land
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  • During the war.
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  • And i was in a trench between the lines, he said, i saw a
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  • Shadowy figure moving and i wanted to ask, who goes there?
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  • And he said, if i did that, i did not know if i would be
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  • Answering with a bullet or the reply of a friend with silence.
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  • But he said there by the sea of that moor, i got my guts up and
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  • I got courageous enough, and i shouted out who goes there?
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  • And he said, i received an answer that absolutely changed
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  • My life.
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  • Who goes there, who goes there?
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  • An officer was wounded, he was in the hospital and a young
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  • Chaplain went to see him and he began to speak with him and the
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  • Severely wounded man says, padre, i wanna ask you
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  • A question, what is god like?
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  • He said, when i go to a new battalion, the first thing i
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  • Asked the people there, what is the colonel like?
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  • And he said, god almighty is the colonel of all of humanity and
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  • Padre, i want you to tell me what is god like?
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  • Big question.
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  • People have asked it through the ages.
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  • And then we have jesus.
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  • Jesus, who goes there?
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  • And his answer, father.
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  • Father, a personal answer.
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  • He said, well, that's a human word, by the way, that's all we
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  • Have until angels come and write some other kind of
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  • Supernatural dictionary.
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  • All we have is human words.
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  • And as jesus who goes there, he said, father.
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  • Now some of us may have a problem with that.
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  • To visit--what kind of dad, what kind of father you had, what
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  • Kind of father i had?
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  • I've got a problem with it in some ways.
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  • When i was a child, all the way through, approaching
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  • Adolescence, my dad and i were buddies, pals, i was with him
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  • Wherever he went.
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  • We were close and he played with me, he built things for me, we
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  • Worked together, but when adolescence came,
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  • Something happened.
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  • I don't know what it was.
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  • And my father moved away from me.
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  • He was as generous as he could be, but the relationship was
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  • Broken, totally severed and it was severed all the way through
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  • Until he left this earth.
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  • I don't know what happened.
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  • There's a problem with a lot of people, god is like a father,
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  • Someone said, i certainly hope not.
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  • But it is a father who was like the father of the prodigal.
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  • The father of a prodigal was a motherly father.
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  • Did you know that?
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  • We see the feminine characteristic in god.
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  • In those days, you remember when the prodigal decided to
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  • Come home.
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  • In those days, the father would sit at home, he'd wait for that
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  • Prodigal to come back and beg for forgiveness, and the mother
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  • Would run out and meet the prodigal coming back.
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  • But in this son, it was the father who ran to meet that
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  • Returning son and the father went out and the father who
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  • Said, put a robe on him, shoes, a ring, kill the fatted calf.
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  • He's dead, he's alive, he's lost, he's found.
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  • That would be what a mother would do and kissing that son as
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  • The prodigal's father did.
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  • And so, therefore, we have, in the role of the father there,
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  • A motherly father.
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  • Oh, that's the picture of god.
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  • The picture we have here and luke chapter 11, the hero is not
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  • The prodigal son.
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  • We saw the parable, the prodigal son, no, it's the father.
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  • It's the father.
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  • The hero was a shepherd, the hero was a woman.
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  • Shepherd, find the sheep, woman coin, father, going out when he
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  • Saw that son, when he was yet a great way off, he ran.
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  • That is a beautiful picture of how god operates in your life
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  • And my life, he sees us coming home to him, he will run to meet
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  • You every single time.
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  • Our father.
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  • I must be about my father's business.
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  • The lord god, almighty father, the creed says.
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  • So we see that god is like a father and then we understand
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  • Something about a father in that god as father sometimes is
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  • Lonely, sometimes gets lonesome.
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  • That happen to the prodigal, that certainly happened to the
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  • Prodigal's relationship with his dad, when he gathered all this
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  • Stuff and took his inheritance and left.
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  • I can assure you that father was lonesome.
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  • He wanted a relationship with the son and anybody here who's a
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  • Father, you understand that.
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  • Your kids grow up and they leave and they go to the army, they go
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  • To college, and they--suddenly you were close to them and now
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  • There's this little girl and man, she takes priority over you
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  • Dad, i don't care what you think.
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  • And then all you see their friends and there's activities
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  • And there's interest and all of a sudden the kids begin to grow
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  • Up and move away and have new thoughts and new ideas, by the
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  • Way, that's the way it should be.
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  • That's what we do as parents, by the same token.
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  • We miss them, we'd like to keep them there, you know, all the
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  • Time under our wings, under our authority, under our provisions.
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  • That's a father.
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  • One terrific thing about having special children, greatly
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  • Challenged families, but having special children so many times
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  • They stay children and that in and of itself can be a
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  • Beautiful thing.
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  • Father.
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  • We never think about god being lonely for us, but he is,
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  • Because he made us to have fellowship with him and we're
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  • Equipped to have fellowship with the almighty father, and when we
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  • Do not engage in that fellowship, god gets lonely and
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  • Suddenly we feel a distance from god and god feels a distance
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  • From us and that distance sometimes grows greater and
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  • Greater and greater.
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  • The father god gets lonely, gets lonely.
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  • Also, the father god not only gets lonely but the father god
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  • Gets disappointed, yeah.
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  • Just like we look at our children and we let them go and
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  • Give them rope and we see they make poor choices, poor
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  • Decisions and we bring them back in and we give them rope and
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  • They make some good choices and then they make some poor
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  • Decisions and we get disappointed, do we not?
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  • We see what could have been, what should have been, what
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  • Ought to have been?
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  • We ask ourselves, what did i do wrong, where did i mess up?
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  • What was i too aggressive, too passive?
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  • And we see there is a disappointment with god, even
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  • With you and with me.
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  • He sees us make all the moves in life, how many times did i move
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  • This way and i should have moved that way, and i said this and i
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  • Should have been silent.
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  • You see, god gets disappointed.
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  • He has sorrow when your life and my life isn't productive.
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  • He said, i've come, you might have life and you might have it
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  • Abundantly, overflowing.
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  • How do we miss that?
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  • We might have joy, meaning, significance, value, be
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  • Creative, move out, how do we miss that?
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  • Certainly, god gets disappointed, a lot of fathers
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  • And mothers gets a bit disappointed, say man, if they'd
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  • Only make this choice, if they hadn't had chose this person for
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  • A friend, if they hadn't married this one, and we
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  • Get disappointed.
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  • God gets disappointed in us.
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  • And behind all this, father, also, this god is all powerful.
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  • He is omnipotent.
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  • A lot of people like, well, god can do anything.
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  • Do you really believe that?
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  • That's not true.
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  • God cannot do anything because god has limited himself when he
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  • Brought life to you and life to me, because we have the ability
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  • To choose.
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  • He delivered himself, he says the most important thing is for
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  • All of creation to be free.
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  • We're not puppets, he didn't say, do do do do do this is what
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  • You do, do do do do do, this is how you think he wanted us to
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  • Have a relationship with him that would be voluntarily, it
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  • Would be free, it would be as he would lead us, as we speak.
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  • And you take away that free moral agent, the ability to
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  • Choose and you take away life.
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  • So well, why didn't god just wipe out all the evil?
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  • Why doesn't god heal everybody who's ill?
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  • It's because god doesn't violate that most thing that makes you
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  • Human and that is the ability to choose to be a free person.
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  • You wouldn't want a child like this, you dictate to them, you
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  • Could feed thoughts into them and they'd be ever so perfect
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  • And do everything you want.
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  • You would want a child who would have the freedom to love and to
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  • Relate and to understand and to be in harmony with you.
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  • So did god almighty, ladies and gentlemen, but he is a powerful
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  • God and that is the almighty-ness of the father.
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  • I believe in god, the father, lord god almighty, says
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  • The creed.
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  • Almighty.
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  • We talk about power, we talk about the cross.
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  • That's so confusing.
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  • I dare say i could go around this room and stand you up and
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  • Say, tell me there's power in the cross?
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  • Oh yes, there's power in the cross.
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  • Tell me why the cross is so powerful.
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  • Hello?
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  • I was crucified with christ, nevertheless, i--what in the
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  • World does that mean?
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  • We need to understand that.
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  • First of all, we better define power.
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  • Power is the ability to accomplish purpose, got it?
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  • If you have the ability to accomplish purpose, you
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  • Have power.
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  • What is god's purpose?
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  • What does he want to accomplish with your life and my life?
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  • Number one, he wants us to be saved.
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  • I like the word salvaged.
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  • He wants you and me to be restored for the purpose for
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  • Which we were made.
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  • Number one.
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  • Number two, he wants you and me to have a clean heart, a new
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  • Heart, a new heart to make good choices.
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  • And he wants us also to be able to say, not my will, but thy
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  • Will be done.
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  • He wants us to understand that god's way is better than your
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  • Way or my way and how stubborn and slow we are to pick up
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  • On that.
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  • Well, god, i know you'll heal this one, i know you'll do this,
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  • I know you'll do that.
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  • No, his will is always better, greater than our will.
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  • And that's the reason we look to the cross and say it is the
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  • Power of god.
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  • Jesus came in the world, who is jesus, well, he's the son
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  • Of god.
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  • He's the incarnation, he is god with skin on.
  • 00:15:02.983 --> 00:15:08.955
  • Jesus is god with skin on.
  • 00:15:08.955 --> 00:15:13.059
  • And therefore we talk about the power of the cross--if you have
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  • Your bibles, look at 1 corinthians chapter number 1.
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  • Let's see why the cross, how the cross, is the power of god.
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  • We've been singing about it, talking about it, hearing it, do
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  • We understand it?
  • 00:15:29.275 --> 00:15:30.610
  • It's profound.
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  • Paul writing, 1 corinthians chapter 1, 18, "for the message
  • 00:15:32.312 --> 00:15:38.084
  • Of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to
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  • Us who are being saved," salvaged, "it is the power of
  • 00:15:44.691 --> 00:15:49.062
  • God," there it is, the cross is the power of god.
  • 00:15:49.062 --> 00:15:52.065
  • Now look at verse 20, "where is the wise?
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  • Where is the scribe?
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  • Where is the disputer of this age?
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  • Has not god made foolish the wisdom of the world?
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  • For since, in the wisdom of god, the world through wisdom did not
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  • Know god, it pleased god through the foolishness of the message
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  • Preached to save those who believe."
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  • Verse 22, listen, "for the jews requested a sign, and the greeks
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  • Seek after wisdom; but we preach christ crucified, to the jews a
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  • Stumbling block, to the greeks foolishness, but to those who
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  • Are called, both jews and greeks, christ the power of god
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  • And the wisdom of god."
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  • Okay.
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  • Jesus is god with human flesh on.
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  • To prove that to the greeks, had to use wisdom, greek or roman
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  • World, they wanted to use intelligence.
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  • They wanted to use wisdom, rational thinking.
  • 00:16:53.259 --> 00:16:55.595
  • That's what the greeks, the romans therefore were all about.
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  • You convince me with wisdom, jesus, that you are indeed
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  • God incarnate.
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  • And he did some of that in his teachings, did he not?
  • 00:17:03.503 --> 00:17:06.339
  • How profound the teachings of jesus wisdom, but they
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  • Weren't convinced.
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  • Now, the jews, convince them, i need a sign.
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  • We look at the old testament, it's full of signs.
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  • The old testament is full of power of god, the miracles
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  • Of god.
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  • It's full of signs and they said, perform some miracles,
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  • More miracles, jesus, and we'll believe.
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  • That's what the jews wanted to believe.
  • 00:17:27.694 --> 00:17:30.630
  • But paul says, the real power of god is seen in the cross.
  • 00:17:30.630 --> 00:17:34.501
  • What is the cross?
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  • The cross gave, through jesus, the ability and the way in which
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  • The purpose of god will be fulfilled in your life and in my
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  • Life, you see that, remember what we said?
  • 00:17:48.114 --> 00:17:51.484
  • Power is the ability to fulfill purpose.
  • 00:17:51.484 --> 00:17:55.989
  • And we said exactly what the purpose of god is to get you and
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  • Me right with him, how in the world do we get right with him?
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  • It takes the cross because all the trash in your life and my
  • 00:18:03.329 --> 00:18:07.600
  • Life is put on that cross and he died, he bled, he was crucified,
  • 00:18:07.600 --> 00:18:12.772
  • And therefore now you and i can talk with god and god can talk
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  • With us.
  • 00:18:17.010 --> 00:18:18.678
  • You can't pray any time you wanna pray.
  • 00:18:18.678 --> 00:18:21.714
  • Someone said, well, i wanna ask god to help me here, guide me
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  • Here or get a good medical report.
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  • I'm gonna--oh no.
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  • If there's sin in your life and in my life, living, ongoing sin,
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  • Any time you go to god, he's gonna say,
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  • Wait, wait a minute, bill.
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  • Wait a minute, alice.
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  • Let's talk about this thing.
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  • Get this worked out, then we can talk, then i'll listen,
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  • Then i'll work.
  • 00:18:43.269 --> 00:18:45.405
  • And this is what this is all about, the cross.
  • 00:18:45.405 --> 00:18:49.175
  • Jesus satisfies the justice of god and demonstrates the love of
  • 00:18:49.175 --> 00:18:54.614
  • God and that he died on the cross so we can get right
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  • Through to god.
  • 00:18:58.017 --> 00:18:59.385
  • That's the only way.
  • 00:18:59.385 --> 00:19:01.154
  • And therefore, that's the power of god to operate in your life
  • 00:19:01.154 --> 00:19:05.725
  • And to operate in my life.
  • 00:19:05.725 --> 00:19:07.393
  • And it was nailed down at easter, if anybody had any doubt
  • 00:19:07.393 --> 00:19:11.397
  • About what was going on.
  • 00:19:11.397 --> 00:19:14.367
  • And so we see the very power of god.
  • 00:19:14.367 --> 00:19:20.273
  • Power restrained.
  • 00:19:20.273 --> 00:19:22.475
  • Aren't you glad god is patient with you and me?
  • 00:19:22.475 --> 00:19:24.877
  • I sure am.
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  • My goodness, he's long-suffering, is a good
  • 00:19:26.212 --> 00:19:29.482
  • Biblical word for it.
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  • He's patient, he waits like the father of the prodigal waited,
  • 00:19:31.217 --> 00:19:35.888
  • Waited, waited, waited until there was that breakthrough and
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  • He ran.
  • 00:19:39.859 --> 00:19:41.594
  • A running god.
  • 00:19:41.594 --> 00:19:43.463
  • He ran to greet and to restore and to forgive.
  • 00:19:43.463 --> 00:19:47.800
  • That's so very, very important.
  • 00:19:47.800 --> 00:19:51.504
  • Marjorie rawlings wrote a tremendous little book.
  • 00:19:51.504 --> 00:19:57.477
  • It's called "the yearling."
  • 00:19:57.477 --> 00:19:59.479
  • Classic.
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  • This book is about a primitive tribe, a group of people who
  • 00:20:01.447 --> 00:20:05.952
  • Live down in the darkness of a florida swamp.
  • 00:20:05.952 --> 00:20:10.323
  • I mean, they barely eked out a living, they had virtually no
  • 00:20:10.323 --> 00:20:14.761
  • Contact with the outside world.
  • 00:20:14.761 --> 00:20:16.763
  • They were really swamp people, ignorant people, but
  • 00:20:16.763 --> 00:20:22.335
  • Good people.
  • 00:20:22.335 --> 00:20:24.203
  • Lived this on the ragged edge of existence, and rawlings writes
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  • About this group of people and she described sort of the head
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  • Of the clan.
  • 00:20:34.247 --> 00:20:35.581
  • There was a guy named penny, a father.
  • 00:20:35.581 --> 00:20:38.017
  • And penny sort of superintended everybody else in that little
  • 00:20:38.017 --> 00:20:42.055
  • Village, in the middle of that swamp.
  • 00:20:42.055 --> 00:20:44.891
  • And also in that village, there was a pitiful, pitiful young guy
  • 00:20:44.891 --> 00:20:52.298
  • Called fodder-wing.
  • 00:20:52.298 --> 00:20:55.134
  • Fodder-wing was born crippled, he was--his mind did not
  • 00:20:55.134 --> 00:20:59.072
  • Function, he was very, very simplistic, but fodder-wing was
  • 00:20:59.072 --> 00:21:04.510
  • A part of the community there, and fodder-wing had one
  • 00:21:04.510 --> 00:21:08.748
  • Unusual thing.
  • 00:21:08.748 --> 00:21:10.083
  • All the animals and creatures felt completely at home
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  • With him.
  • 00:21:12.885 --> 00:21:14.220
  • It's a beautiful thing to see.
  • 00:21:14.220 --> 00:21:16.689
  • But fodder-wing died and rawlings pictures, fodder-wing
  • 00:21:16.689 --> 00:21:21.494
  • In that little wooden casket, open, all the community gathered
  • 00:21:21.494 --> 00:21:26.432
  • Around and they don't know what to say, but you know, when
  • 00:21:26.432 --> 00:21:30.370
  • Somebody dies, have you noticed everybody begins to think
  • 00:21:30.370 --> 00:21:33.106
  • About god?
  • 00:21:33.106 --> 00:21:34.440
  • Isn't that, you know, ain't that amazing?
  • 00:21:34.440 --> 00:21:35.775
  • We just sort of cruise along but boy, you let death come and who
  • 00:21:35.775 --> 00:21:39.278
  • We want to think about god.
  • 00:21:39.278 --> 00:21:40.646
  • And that was true of those backward, primitive people down
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  • In the middle of that swamp.
  • 00:21:43.916 --> 00:21:45.985
  • And so they looked at penny and said penny, you know, something
  • 00:21:45.985 --> 00:21:49.756
  • About christian stuff.
  • 00:21:49.756 --> 00:21:51.791
  • Here's fodder-wing, why don't you say a word?
  • 00:21:51.791 --> 00:21:55.528
  • And so penny went up there in his almost illiterate way and
  • 00:21:55.528 --> 00:22:01.267
  • Stood over that casket, lifted up his hand and prayed
  • 00:22:01.267 --> 00:22:06.672
  • This prayer.
  • 00:22:06.672 --> 00:22:09.475
  • "oh lord almighty god.
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  • It ain't for us ignorant mortals to say what's right
  • 00:22:12.879 --> 00:22:15.948
  • And what's wrong.
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  • Was any one of us to be doin' of it, we'd not of bring this poor
  • 00:22:18.117 --> 00:22:22.955
  • Boy into the world a cripple, and his mind teched.
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  • We'd of bring him in straight and tall like his brothers,
  • 00:22:27.427 --> 00:22:32.165
  • Fittin' to live and work and do.
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  • But in a way o' speakin', lord, you done made it up to him.
  • 00:22:34.467 --> 00:22:40.540
  • You give him a way with the wild critters.
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  • You give him a sort of wisdom, made him knowin' and gentle.
  • 00:22:44.477 --> 00:22:48.614
  • The birds come to him, and the varmints moved free about him,
  • 00:22:48.614 --> 00:22:53.319
  • And like as not he could of takened a she wild-cat right in
  • 00:22:53.319 --> 00:22:58.024
  • His pore twisted hands.
  • 00:22:58.024 --> 00:23:02.094
  • Now you've done seed fit to take him where bein' crookedly in
  • 00:23:02.094 --> 00:23:07.066
  • Mind or limb don't matter.
  • 00:23:07.066 --> 00:23:10.336
  • But lord, it pleasures us to think now you've done
  • 00:23:10.336 --> 00:23:13.473
  • Straightened out them legs and that pore bent back and
  • 00:23:13.473 --> 00:23:18.344
  • Them hands.
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  • It pleasures us to think on him, movin' around as easy as
  • 00:23:20.980 --> 00:23:25.251
  • E'ery one of us.
  • 00:23:25.251 --> 00:23:27.520
  • And lord, give him a few red-birds and maybe a squirrel
  • 00:23:27.520 --> 00:23:31.991
  • And a 'coon and a 'possum to keep him company, like he
  • 00:23:31.991 --> 00:23:35.661
  • Had here.
  • 00:23:35.661 --> 00:23:38.097
  • All of us is somehow lonesome, and we know he'll not be
  • 00:23:38.097 --> 00:23:43.669
  • Lonesome, do he have them little wild things around him, if it
  • 00:23:43.669 --> 00:23:49.342
  • Ain't askin' too much to put a few varmints in heaven.
  • 00:23:49.342 --> 00:23:54.080
  • Thy will be done, amen."
  • 00:23:54.080 --> 00:24:01.654
  • I've asked and you've asked a lot of
  • 00:24:01.654 --> 00:24:03.756
  • Absolutely silly questions.
  • 00:24:03.756 --> 00:24:08.394
  • Will, i know my family in heaven?
  • 00:24:08.394 --> 00:24:13.232
  • Will, i have a husband in heaven?
  • 00:24:13.232 --> 00:24:17.937
  • Will i have to sing in the choir in heaven?
  • 00:24:17.937 --> 00:24:22.875
  • Will i be an angel in heaven?
  • 00:24:22.875 --> 00:24:26.879
  • What will i do in heaven?
  • 00:24:26.879 --> 00:24:29.549
  • Will all the sickness be gone in heaven?
  • 00:24:29.549 --> 00:24:32.952
  • Will i have a clear mind--ladies and gentlemen,
  • 00:24:32.952 --> 00:24:37.089
  • I've got a flash for you.
  • 00:24:37.089 --> 00:24:40.660
  • Heaven, based on the faithfulness of god, is going to
  • 00:24:40.660 --> 00:24:47.366
  • Be more than we can understand with our pitiful, finite minds,
  • 00:24:47.366 --> 00:24:54.440
  • Hearts, and passions.
  • 00:24:54.440 --> 00:24:56.709
  • Don't worry about anything.
  • 00:24:56.709 --> 00:25:00.880
  • It is absolutely beyond silly and beyond ridiculous, because
  • 00:25:00.880 --> 00:25:07.787
  • The god we know and worship,
  • 00:25:07.787 --> 00:25:14.427
  • Through jesus christ, we can be confident,
  • 00:25:14.427 --> 00:25:23.936
  • We can put our full trust and weight down upon him
  • 00:25:23.936 --> 00:25:32.745
  • Because he is what jesus said,
  • 00:25:32.745 --> 00:25:41.654
  • Father.
  • 00:25:41.654 --> 00:25:43.022
  • Female announcer: too many believers are stuck in a
  • 00:25:44.123 --> 00:25:46.359
  • Powerless version of faith.
  • 00:25:46.359 --> 00:25:47.927
  • Frustrated, distracted, and spiritually dry,
  • 00:25:47.927 --> 00:25:52.131
  • But that's not what god wants for you.
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  • Ed: i remember a bible study group that consisted of doctors
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  • And attorneys and ceos and
  • 00:26:20.626 --> 00:26:22.161
  • Vice presidents and presidents of corporations,
  • 00:26:22.161 --> 00:26:25.698
  • Entrepreneurial geniuses and a street sweeper.
  • 00:26:25.698 --> 00:26:30.069
  • In the initial meeting, the group leader asked
  • 00:26:30.069 --> 00:26:32.805
  • Each to identify himself.
  • 00:26:32.805 --> 00:26:34.807
  • First one said, 'i'm a physician',
  • 00:26:34.807 --> 00:26:37.143
  • Another, 'i'm an attorney',
  • 00:26:37.143 --> 00:26:39.945
  • 'i'm vice president of operations' answered a third.
  • 00:26:39.945 --> 00:26:43.182
  • And finally it was the street sweeper's turn.
  • 00:26:43.182 --> 00:26:46.752
  • There was a little apprehension about what he would say.
  • 00:26:46.752 --> 00:26:49.088
  • He said, 'i am a son of the king'.
  • 00:26:49.088 --> 00:26:54.593
  • He had no identity in the world in which he could boast,
  • 00:26:54.593 --> 00:26:59.131
  • But he knew his core identity.
  • 00:26:59.131 --> 00:27:01.500
  • The others were clouded by their earthly titles, position,
  • 00:27:01.500 --> 00:27:05.938
  • But the street sweeper knew he was chosen by the king of kings
  • 00:27:05.938 --> 00:27:09.675
  • To be a son with all the privileges and honors, man,
  • 00:27:09.675 --> 00:27:15.047
  • Of that high position.
  • 00:27:15.047 --> 00:27:16.615
  • Remember, as sons and daughters of god
  • 00:27:16.615 --> 00:27:19.652
  • Who you are in jesus christ right now, today.
  • 00:27:19.652 --> 00:27:24.390
  • There's not a higher position in anybody's kingdom.
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