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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young

Ed Young - Is Anybody Up There?

August 7, 2025 | S25 E189 | 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? | August 7, 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.
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  • Jesus is god with skin on.
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  • 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?
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  • It's profound.
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  • Paul writing, 1 corinthians chapter 1, 18, "for the message
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  • 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
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  • God," there it is, the cross is the power of god.
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  • 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.
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  • 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?
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  • 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.
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  • But paul says, the real power of god is seen in the cross.
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  • 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?
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  • Power is the ability to fulfill purpose.
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  • 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
  • 00:17:49.046 --> 00:17:53.317
  • Life is put on that cross and he died, he bled, he was crucified,
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  • And therefore now you and i can talk with god and god can talk
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  • With us.
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  • You can't pray any time you wanna pray.
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  • 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.
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  • And this is what this is all about, the cross.
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  • Jesus satisfies the justice of god and demonstrates the love of
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  • God and that he died on the cross so we can get right
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  • Through to god.
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  • That's the only way.
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  • And therefore, that's the power of god to operate in your life
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  • And to operate in my life.
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  • And it was nailed down at easter, if anybody had any doubt
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  • About what was going on.
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  • And so we see the very power of god.
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  • Power restrained.
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  • Aren't you glad god is patient with you and me?
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  • I sure am.
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  • My goodness, he's long-suffering, is a good
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  • Biblical word for it.
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  • He's patient, he waits like the father of the prodigal waited,
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  • Waited, waited, waited until there was that breakthrough and
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  • He ran.
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  • A running god.
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  • He ran to greet and to restore and to forgive.
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  • That's so very, very important.
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  • Marjorie rawlings wrote a tremendous little book.
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  • It's called "the yearling."
  • 00:19:43.194 --> 00:19:45.196
  • Classic.
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  • This book is about a primitive tribe, a group of people who
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  • Live down in the darkness of a florida swamp.
  • 00:19:51.669 --> 00:19:56.040
  • I mean, they barely eked out a living, they had virtually no
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  • Contact with the outside world.
  • 00:20:00.478 --> 00:20:02.480
  • They were really swamp people, ignorant people, but
  • 00:20:02.480 --> 00:20:08.052
  • Good people.
  • 00:20:08.052 --> 00:20:09.920
  • 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.
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  • There was a guy named penny, a father.
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  • And penny sort of superintended everybody else in that little
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  • Village, in the middle of that swamp.
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  • And also in that village, there was a pitiful, pitiful young guy
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  • Called fodder-wing.
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  • Fodder-wing was born crippled, he was--his mind did not
  • 00:20:40.851 --> 00:20:44.789
  • Function, he was very, very simplistic, but fodder-wing was
  • 00:20:44.789 --> 00:20:50.227
  • A part of the community there, and fodder-wing had one
  • 00:20:50.227 --> 00:20:54.465
  • Unusual thing.
  • 00:20:54.465 --> 00:20:55.800
  • All the animals and creatures felt completely at home
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  • With him.
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  • It's a beautiful thing to see.
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  • But fodder-wing died and rawlings pictures, fodder-wing
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  • In that little wooden casket, open, all the community gathered
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  • Around and they don't know what to say, but you know, when
  • 00:21:12.149 --> 00:21:16.087
  • Somebody dies, have you noticed everybody begins to think
  • 00:21:16.087 --> 00:21:18.823
  • About god?
  • 00:21:18.823 --> 00:21:20.157
  • Isn't that, you know, ain't that amazing?
  • 00:21:20.157 --> 00:21:21.492
  • We just sort of cruise along but boy, you let death come and who
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  • We want to think about god.
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  • And that was true of those backward, primitive people down
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  • In the middle of that swamp.
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  • And so they looked at penny and said penny, you know, something
  • 00:21:31.702 --> 00:21:35.473
  • About christian stuff.
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  • Here's fodder-wing, why don't you say a word?
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  • And so penny went up there in his almost illiterate way and
  • 00:21:41.245 --> 00:21:46.984
  • Stood over that casket, lifted up his hand and prayed
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  • This prayer.
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  • "oh lord almighty god.
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  • It ain't for us ignorant mortals to say what's right
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  • 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
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  • 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,
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • The birds come to him, and the varmints moved free about him,
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  • And like as not he could of takened a she wild-cat right in
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  • His pore twisted hands.
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  • Now you've done seed fit to take him where bein' crookedly in
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  • Mind or limb don't matter.
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  • But lord, it pleasures us to think now you've done
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  • Straightened out them legs and that pore bent back and
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  • Them hands.
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  • It pleasures us to think on him, movin' around as easy as
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  • E'ery one of us.
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  • And lord, give him a few red-birds and maybe a squirrel
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  • And a 'coon and a 'possum to keep him company, like he
  • 00:23:17.708 --> 00:23:21.378
  • Had here.
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  • All of us is somehow lonesome, and we know he'll not be
  • 00:23:23.814 --> 00:23:29.386
  • Lonesome, do he have them little wild things around him, if it
  • 00:23:29.386 --> 00:23:35.059
  • Ain't askin' too much to put a few varmints in heaven.
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  • Thy will be done, amen."
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  • I've asked and you've asked a lot of
  • 00:23:47.371 --> 00:23:49.473
  • Absolutely silly questions.
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  • Will, i know my family in heaven?
  • 00:23:54.111 --> 00:23:58.949
  • Will, i have a husband in heaven?
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  • Will i have to sing in the choir in heaven?
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  • Will i be an angel in heaven?
  • 00:24:08.592 --> 00:24:12.596
  • What will i do in heaven?
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  • Will all the sickness be gone in heaven?
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  • Will i have a clear mind--ladies and gentlemen,
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  • I've got a flash for you.
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  • Heaven, based on the faithfulness of god, is going to
  • 00:24:26.377 --> 00:24:33.083
  • Be more than we can understand with our pitiful, finite minds,
  • 00:24:33.083 --> 00:24:40.157
  • Hearts, and passions.
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  • Don't worry about anything.
  • 00:24:42.426 --> 00:24:46.597
  • It is absolutely beyond silly and beyond ridiculous, because
  • 00:24:46.597 --> 00:24:53.504
  • The god we know and worship,
  • 00:24:53.504 --> 00:25:00.144
  • Through jesus christ, we can be confident,
  • 00:25:00.144 --> 00:25:09.653
  • We can put our full trust and weight down upon him
  • 00:25:09.653 --> 00:25:18.462
  • Because he is what jesus said,
  • 00:25:18.462 --> 00:25:27.371
  • Father.
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  • Ed: there's never been a better time than right
  • 00:25:31.809 --> 00:25:34.411
  • Now to make god a priority in your life.
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  • That's why we've created this 90 day devotional, "putting god
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  • First," number one.
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  • And when you and i do that, he is faithful to give the
  • 00:25:44.355 --> 00:25:47.691
  • Direction of guidance you and i need every day to walk
  • 00:25:47.691 --> 00:25:51.295
  • Through life.
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  • It is my prayer that this devotional will help you to
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  • Become all that god has designed you to become.
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  • 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: i remember a bible study group that consisted of doctors
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  • And attorneys and ceos and
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  • Vice presidents and presidents of corporations,
  • 00:26:15.919 --> 00:26:19.123
  • Entrepreneurial genius' and a street sweeper.
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  • In the initial meeting, the group leader asked
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  • Each to identify himself.
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  • First one said, ‘i'm a physician',
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  • Another, ‘i'm an attorney',
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  • ‘i'm vice president of operations' answered a third.
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  • And finally it was the street sweeper's turn.
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  • I was a little apprehensive about what he'd say.
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  • He said, ‘i am a son of the king'.
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  • He had no identity in the world for which he could boast,
  • 00:26:46.884 --> 00:26:52.790
  • But he knew his core identity.
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  • The others were clouded by their earthly title, position,
  • 00:26:55.325 --> 00:26:58.796
  • But the street sweeper knew he was chosen by the king of kings
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  • To be a son with all the privileges and honors, man,
  • 00:27:03.367 --> 00:27:07.971
  • Of that high position.
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  • Remember, as sons and daughters of god
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  • Who you are in jesus christ right now, today.
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  • There's not a higher position in anybody's kingdom.
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  • ♪♪♪
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