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Ed Young - The Armor of God

March 9, 2026 | 27:29

Ed Young - The Armor of God
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 - The Armor of God | March 9, 2026
  • How did the romans use that shield?
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  • They would get there,
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  • And they would line up with their legions.
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  • They would take that shield and they would hide behind
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  • That shield,
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  • And they would have a phalanx there,
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  • And they'd lock their she goes together
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  • Shield like the shield and the shield, the next row.
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  • Shield that the shield.
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  • It would go all the way back.
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  • And the flaming arrows would come.
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  • Where were those flaming arrows?
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  • They would take cotton, put them on an arrow.
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  • They dipped the cotton in pitch.
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  • It'd be fire burning slow.
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  • They would slow it,
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  • And the air would come and gray would hit.
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  • It would splatter, splatter fire.
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  • But you see, they were protected behind that shield.
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  • Let the flaming arrows of the devil come and attack us.
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  • Because this shield is a shield.
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  • Of what? faith.
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  • Thank you
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  • For being a part of the winning walk family today.
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  • I want to ask you if you ever noticed that
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  • Spiritual growth doesn't just happen automatically.
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  • It's intentional.
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  • It's daily.
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  • It's a walk.
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  • Thanks for joining me.
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  • Let's get started on a winning
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  • Walk with our lord.
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  • The book of ephesians
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  • Is a fabulous practical study
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  • Of telling us
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  • How god wants his sons and daughters
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  • To walk in the world in which we live.
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  • Look at it.
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  • Chapter one of ephesians tells us that
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  • We are in christ if we've received him.
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  • This is what we have.
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  • This is who we are.
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  • Tremendous things.
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  • And then the word walk is all the way through this.
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  • Look at chapter two, verse ten.
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  • For we are his workmanship.
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  • He carved us out.
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  • Created in jesus christ.
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  • A new carving, a new person for good works,
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  • Which god prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.
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  • He has given us gifts and abilities
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  • And put us here at this time, and this place,
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  • Regardless of our confusing our life, is regardless
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  • Of how thrilling our life is.
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  • We are his workmanship, and we are to walk and use
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  • That which he's given us at this point in life.
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  • Then chapter two
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  • We talk about woe, for we are his workmanship.
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  • And then look over in chapter number three,
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  • He still talks about verse 14.
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  • For this reason i bow my knees to the father, from whom
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  • Every family in heaven on earth derives its name.
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  • Verse 17.
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  • So that christ may dwell
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  • In your hearts through faith, that you, being rooted
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  • And grounded in love, be able to comprehend
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  • With all the saints, all the other christians,
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  • What is the breadth and length and height and depth, and
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  • To know the love of christ, which surpasses all knowledge.
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  • That you may be filled up to all the fullness of god.
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  • Oh that's amazing!
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  • In chapter four, verse one, i, therefore,
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  • The presence of the lord, beseech you that you walk.
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  • There's our word in a manner worthy
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  • Of the calling as christians with which you are called.
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  • How do we walk with humility, o humility,
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  • With gentleness, with patience,
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  • Showing,
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  • Showing, showing tolerance for one another in love?
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  • That's how we are to walk.
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  • Look at verse 17.
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  • So this i say and affirm together
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  • With the lord, that you walk no longer, just as the gentiles
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  • Unbelievers walk in the futility of their mind.
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  • No, we walk intelligently.
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  • Then look at verse, chapter number five,
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  • Verse two, and walk in love,
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  • Just as christ also loved you and gave himself up for us,
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  • An offering and a sacrifice to god as a fragrant aroma.
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  • When we're walking with him, there's a fragrant aroma
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  • Going out from our lives in that interesting, beautiful,
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  • Beautiful figurative language.
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  • Then verse 15.
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  • Chapter five. ephesians.
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  • Therefore be careful how you walk,
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  • Not as unwise men and women, but as wise,
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  • Making the most of your time, because the days are evil.
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  • Verse 17.
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  • So then, do not be foolish, but understand
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  • What the will of the lord is.
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  • So the whole passage
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  • You walk like this, you walk like this.
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  • Then you come to that 18th verse there, and ephesians five
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  • And it
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  • Says, be not drunk with wine,
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  • But be filled with the spirit.
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  • Now some people have the idea when you're feel
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  • The spirit, it's like you're drunk.
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  • No, no, no.
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  • When you're filled with
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  • The spirit, it's the opposite of being drunk.
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  • It means you are walking.
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  • You're standing.
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  • You are solid. you are steadfast.
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  • You have a sense of direction, a sense of purpose.
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  • And that's what it means to be filled with the spirit.
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  • Now, somebody well being filled.
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  • The spirit.
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  • That's such a big, fancy church kind of concept.
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  • What does it really mean?
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  • Paul tells us in the following verses
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  • This is a transition in all the book of ephesians.
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  • Paul said, this is how you walk.
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  • This is who you are. this is how you walk.
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  • This is how you live.
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  • You walk in love, etc.
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  • And then he says, be filled with the spirit.
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  • He has four characteristics.
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  • Determine what you and our spirit feel.
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  • Very simple.
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  • Number one, he says, speaking, since i am the text
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  • You speak to one another.
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  • By the way, some people have a hard time saying hello.
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  • Have you noticed that? it's not painful.
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  • Why? some have hard time smiling.
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  • Try you.
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  • We speak to what they're speaking and they're singing.
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  • Oh, yeah?
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  • You say?
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  • I don't see
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  • How many of you have ever been a choir in your life.
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  • Would you ever. being a choir. baby choir?
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  • My goodness.
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  • I'm. by the way, you've been in the choir today.
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  • Wayne was leading all of us.
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  • We've been in the choir. that's what we do.
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  • We sing when i don't sing anymore.
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  • Just the words.
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  • Amazing grace.
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  • How sweet you know it.
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  • Singing,
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  • Speaking, singing, thanking is a mark of being spiritual.
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  • We're thankful.
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  • I'm grateful for this.
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  • I'm thankful for that.
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  • I'm thrilled to be have an attitude.
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  • We love to be around people who have a
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  • A thanksgiving lifestyle, don't we?
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  • Some, you know, we just they're just thankful
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  • The sun came up.
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  • I'm thankful.
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  • We're thankful for the little things, but we're just.
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  • Thanksgiving is a mark of being filled with the spirit,
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  • Filled the spirit like christ speaking, saying thank.
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  • Submitting is a mark said.
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  • We're to be submissive one to another.
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  • That's to position ourselves under.
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  • Now paul gives this lofty theological framework,
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  • And then you know what he breaks out into in ephesians.
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  • He gets real practical.
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  • He says, now you're filled with the spirit.
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  • You're speaking, you're singing,
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  • You're saying you're submitting.
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  • And now this is how a man relates
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  • To his wife, and a wife relates to a man in marriage.
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  • Very practical in
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  • Writing, right down to earth.
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  • Then he gets more practical.
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  • He said, oh, also, this is how parents
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  • Relate to children and children relates to parents.
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  • And he thinks simpler than that.
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  • Great counsel.
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  • Then he gets even more practical.
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  • He said, this is how an employer writes to employees
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  • And employees relate to an employer for a practical.
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  • And you say, well, i've got this walk,
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  • I've got this winning walk down.
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  • And because i have the winning walk down,
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  • I'm okay.
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  • But then paul,
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  • Right there in the scripture we've been looking at and
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  • Ephesians chapter number six, he says, finally, be
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  • Strong in the lord and the strength of his might
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  • Put on the full armor of god, so that you will be able
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  • To stand firm against the schemes of the devil.
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  • Now we've already, if
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  • You've been around, put on three pieces of armor.
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  • Have you noticed?
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  • But i want you to see what else paul says.
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  • Look at verse 16.
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  • I won't even i know it, he said.
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  • In addition to this, we got all we need.
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  • But paul said, in addition to this,
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  • If we're going to be successful in the battle against evil
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  • In this world, in your life and in my life, he says,
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  • And he adds three more pieces of armor.
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  • These are symbols, by the way.
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  • Remember what this is we're putting on
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  • Jesus christ, aren't we?
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  • We take off ourselves and we put on christ.
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  • This is a symbol of what we have when we put on christ.
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  • And then he says, in addition to this, what is this about?
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  • Look at john. i love this john.
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  • Over here.
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  • It tells us something.
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  • Really. john.
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  • Chapter 14, verse 20 jesus says,
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  • In that day you will know that
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  • I am in my father, and you in me, and i in you.
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  • Now watch this jesus saying
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  • That when jesus says, i'm in the father, right?
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  • Father god, and he's saying, you are in me
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  • And i am in you.
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  • He's saying, we're doubly protected.
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  • Isn't that terrific?
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  • We're doubling protected.
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  • You know, i'm in christ, christ in you,
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  • And we're all in the father. god.
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  • I mean, that is amazing protection.
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  • This is what paul is saying here.
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  • He's saying you've got on these three pieces of armor.
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  • But yet, in addition to this,
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  • If you're really going to stand and walk in the 21st century,
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  • You got to have three other things.
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  • The first thing is, he said, you've got to take up
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  • The shield of faith.
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  • Now, this shield pictured here in the scripture
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  • Is not one of those a little round,
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  • Frisbee like shield,
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  • You know, you see the little round shield.
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  • This shield is about 2.5ft wide, about 4.5ft long.
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  • It's almost like picking up a door.
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  • You got it.
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  • That's how big that roman shield was.
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  • And the roman shield was covered in leather.
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  • And therefore the shield is there
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  • Because the fiery darts from the enemy.
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  • The devil comes and attacks us.
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  • How did the romans use that shield?
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  • They would get there,
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  • And they would line up with their legions.
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  • They would take that shield and they would hide behind
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  • That shield,
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  • And they would have a phalanx there,
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  • And they'd lock their she goes together
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  • Shield like the shield and the shield, the next row.
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  • Shield that the shield.
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  • It would go all the way back.
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  • And the flaming arrows would come.
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  • Where were those flaming arrows?
  • 00:11:06.845 --> 00:11:08.279
  • They would take cotton, put them on an arrow.
  • 00:11:08.279 --> 00:11:10.415
  • They dipped the cotton in pitch.
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  • It'd be fire burning slow.
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  • They would slow it,
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  • And the air would come and gray would hit.
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  • It would splatter, splatter fire.
  • 00:11:17.021 --> 00:11:20.658
  • But you see, they were protected behind that shield.
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  • Let the flaming arrows of the devil come and attack us.
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  • Because this shield is a shield.
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  • Of what? faith.
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  • Now we think faith is a greek word.
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  • It's. it's just not a strong word.
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  • It's a weak word.
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  • It's not a greek word.
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  • It's not a flimsy word.
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  • It's a strong word.
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  • We say, well, reason is strong
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  • And faith is weak,
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  • And therefore we talk about natural revelation.
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  • Stay with me.
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  • That's the created order.
  • 00:11:55.093 --> 00:11:57.328
  • And we say, i can look at a natural revelation,
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  • The created order.
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  • And i can come to believe that there's a god.
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  • Okay, that's reason.
  • 00:12:03.902 --> 00:12:06.070
  • But we look at special revelation.
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  • That's the bible.
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  • We say, oh no, no, i have to accept the bible by faith.
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  • Let me show you something.
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  • The best way to understand the difference between reason
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  • And faith is
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  • We use reason to have a faith, and we use
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  • Faith to have reason.
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  • They're not opposites.
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  • They are complementary.
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  • Best way to see that is
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  • You're dating someone,
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  • Your wife, husband,
  • 00:12:37.969 --> 00:12:40.138
  • And when you're dating,
  • 00:12:40.138 --> 00:12:42.540
  • It's good to use a little reason.
  • 00:12:42.540 --> 00:12:45.510
  • If you fall in love only with your heart.
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  • Heaven help you.
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  • It's only by appearance.
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  • Time out.
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  • So we use reason.
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  • We get to know the person and they get to know us.
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  • Their habits, their understanding.
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  • There is a reason that involved.
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  • And then on the basis of that reason,
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  • We move into a faith.
  • 00:13:06.598 --> 00:13:09.167
  • It's like saying, i do and i will.
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  • We have a reasonable faith.
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  • We come to the altar, i do and i will.
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  • We use our head and we use our heart.
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  • As we fall in love.
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  • Our head gives us reason.
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  • Our heart gives us faith.
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  • And they come together and we have marriage.
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  • We have a reasonable faith.
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  • And that's important that we understand that.
  • 00:13:32.790 --> 00:13:35.660
  • And so the shield of faith is strong.
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  • It is a reason. faith.
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  • It is a firm faith.
  • 00:13:40.632 --> 00:13:42.567
  • So we pick up
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  • The shield of faith that handles all the fiery
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  • Darts that he tries to bring into your life.
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  • Temptations and doubts and frustrations and anger.
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  • The shield of faith.
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  • Feel and faith.
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  • Get behind it.
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  • A child takes their
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  • First step unsteady.
  • 00:14:00.718 --> 00:14:03.488
  • Unsure.
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  • Reaching for a father's hand.
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  • No one is born knowing how to walk.
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  • It takes training, strength.
  • 00:14:09.961 --> 00:14:12.363
  • Balance. time.
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  • Walking with god is no different.
  • 00:14:14.799 --> 00:14:17.702
  • Like all journeys, walking the winning
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  • Walk requires the proper equipment and preparation.
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  • By outfitting our lives with the word of god,
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  • We will be able to follow where the master leads.
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  • Psalm 119 says, your word is a lamp
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  • Unto my feet and a light under my path.
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  • God doesn't rush the journey.
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  • He lights the next step
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  • In the winning walk.
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  • Doctor ed young shares practical, biblical guidance
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  • To help you develop the strength and spiritual
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  • Balance needed for a steady, daily walk with christ.
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  • If you're ready to grow stronger in your faith,
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  • Call the number on your screen
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  • And request your copy of the winning walk today
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  • And begin walking confidently with him.
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  • The next thing we pick up
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  • Is a helmet of salvation.
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  • We put on that helmet
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  • And that says this is who we are.
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  • The helmet protects the mind, the thinking.
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  • It gives us clear thinking.
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  • Don't you like people who think clearly?
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  • This is what happens when we put on the helmet of salvation.
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  • Ladies and gentlemen.
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  • All of a sudden, things that were dark are clear.
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  • And god reveals to us and we think clearly
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  • And we operate clearly
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  • The helmet of salvation.
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  • We put it on, we put it on.
  • 00:15:43.755 --> 00:15:46.591
  • And then what else do we put on?
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  • We really don't put it on.
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  • We pick it up, we take it out.
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  • That is that sword, by
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  • The way, in most armies of this day,
  • 00:15:56.567 --> 00:15:59.470
  • Most people
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  • Right handed,
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  • They put the scabbard and the sword over here
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  • And they draw the big sword like that. right?
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  • Not the romans.
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  • No, no, no, not this kind of armor.
  • 00:16:06.010 --> 00:16:08.413
  • The romans had that big old shield like a door.
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  • And they kept it.
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  • They were right handed the sword here,
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  • And they drew the sword right out like this.
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  • Bam! and it was right there.
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  • It was a short thing, about 6 or 8in long.
  • 00:16:21.692 --> 00:16:24.896
  • And i've heard all my life people teach on this where
  • 00:16:24.896 --> 00:16:27.932
  • The sword is the only offensive weapon, the word of god.
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  • Right? the sword.
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  • This is a word of god.
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  • That's not true.
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  • The sword is an offensive weapon.
  • 00:16:36.374 --> 00:16:38.776
  • But all the armor is to go up against a roman
  • 00:16:38.776 --> 00:16:42.346
  • Hand-to-hand combat.
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  • He's got that shield. bam!
  • 00:16:43.848 --> 00:16:46.017
  • I mean, that's offensive.
  • 00:16:46.017 --> 00:16:47.752
  • He's got those boots apiece.
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  • Have my spikes on them.
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  • Let me tell you, that's offensive.
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  • He has his helmet on.
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  • Have you ever been headbutted?
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  • Bam! that's offensive.
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  • He's got this best pray of righteousness. bam!
  • 00:16:57.562 --> 00:17:00.498
  • He'll get you.
  • 00:17:00.498 --> 00:17:01.632
  • And he's got that sword, the spirit right there. bam!
  • 00:17:01.632 --> 00:17:05.269
  • The word of god, the sword, the spirit.
  • 00:17:06.070 --> 00:17:08.272
  • I usually in the bible, the word of god.
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  • You see the word logos in greece or logos in greece.
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  • It is a whole word of god.
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  • It's all that's available to us.
  • 00:17:16.280 --> 00:17:18.082
  • It's like having an arsenal of weapons over here.
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  • But the sword is not.
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  • The word here is not lagos, it's rhema.
  • 00:17:24.088 --> 00:17:26.891
  • And it is also another word
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  • For the word and that is how it is used.
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  • The sword is used in a very personal, direct way.
  • 00:17:32.530 --> 00:17:36.667
  • It's how jesus used the bible in his temptations.
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  • What do you say?
  • 00:17:40.138 --> 00:17:40.805
  • It is written, it is written
  • 00:17:40.805 --> 00:17:42.940
  • And he'd be dealing with the pharisees.
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  • The sad you said, he'd say,
  • 00:17:45.176 --> 00:17:46.511
  • As the bible teaches, as the bible teaches, would he not?
  • 00:17:46.511 --> 00:17:49.847
  • All the way through he used this as truth.
  • 00:17:49.847 --> 00:17:52.750
  • It was a sword.
  • 00:17:52.750 --> 00:17:53.718
  • That's how we use it.
  • 00:17:53.718 --> 00:17:55.520
  • I mean, i had a little battle, years ago with my heart,
  • 00:17:55.520 --> 00:17:58.523
  • And all of a sudden i'm
  • 00:17:58.523 --> 00:18:00.291
  • In the hospital room and a verse come to mind.
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  • Create in me a clean heart.
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  • Oh, lord, when you are right.
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  • Spirit within me vain, perfect.
  • 00:18:05.863 --> 00:18:07.932
  • Was it clean?
  • 00:18:07.932 --> 00:18:09.567
  • Hard, right. spirit.
  • 00:18:09.567 --> 00:18:10.434
  • There was words of god. come.
  • 00:18:10.434 --> 00:18:13.304
  • Have you ever start across that line?
  • 00:18:13.304 --> 00:18:15.106
  • And all of a sudden a scripture will come to you?
  • 00:18:15.106 --> 00:18:17.608
  • Didn't he know?
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  • You knew it didn't know exactly where it came from.
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  • The quotation.
  • 00:18:21.112 --> 00:18:21.979
  • But it's there. see, that is a rhema.
  • 00:18:21.979 --> 00:18:24.348
  • It is used personally.
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  • It's it's putting faith into action, reasonable
  • 00:18:26.117 --> 00:18:29.820
  • Faith and action.
  • 00:18:29.820 --> 00:18:30.855
  • And that is that sword that we pull out
  • 00:18:30.855 --> 00:18:35.293
  • And we win.
  • 00:18:35.626 --> 00:18:36.227
  • The sword is two edge.
  • 00:18:36.227 --> 00:18:37.428
  • It cuts us and it cuts out.
  • 00:18:37.428 --> 00:18:39.230
  • It's offensive and defensive as we go through this winning
  • 00:18:39.230 --> 00:18:43.234
  • Walk, that salvation,
  • 00:18:43.234 --> 00:18:46.037
  • That's christ,
  • 00:18:46.370 --> 00:18:48.873
  • You say.
  • 00:18:48.873 --> 00:18:49.740
  • Well, i don't know about the bible.
  • 00:18:49.740 --> 00:18:52.877
  • Well, through something i think is very important.
  • 00:18:52.877 --> 00:18:56.147
  • Jesus says the bible is true, right?
  • 00:18:56.147 --> 00:18:59.817
  • Use the bible truth.
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  • The bible says jesus is true.
  • 00:19:01.619 --> 00:19:04.355
  • Okay.
  • 00:19:04.355 --> 00:19:05.389
  • But that's circular reasoning,
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  • Is it?
  • 00:19:08.192 --> 00:19:09.393
  • We know everything about jesus from the bible. bam!
  • 00:19:09.393 --> 00:19:13.231
  • That's i know about you.
  • 00:19:13.764 --> 00:19:14.498
  • Jesus says, look at the bible.
  • 00:19:14.498 --> 00:19:16.300
  • That's circular reasoning, but it's really not.
  • 00:19:16.300 --> 00:19:19.303
  • When you add one other element
  • 00:19:19.303 --> 00:19:22.006
  • And that is a bible itself.
  • 00:19:22.006 --> 00:19:24.642
  • This bible contains 66 books, right?
  • 00:19:24.642 --> 00:19:29.380
  • Written by 37
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  • Authors on two continents,
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  • Written over a period of 2000 years,
  • 00:19:34.785 --> 00:19:37.321
  • Covering a scope of history at least
  • 00:19:37.321 --> 00:19:40.157
  • 4000 years in length.
  • 00:19:40.157 --> 00:19:43.094
  • You would expect.
  • 00:19:43.527 --> 00:19:45.896
  • Different understandings, different backgrounds.
  • 00:19:46.864 --> 00:19:49.767
  • You'd expect incoherence.
  • 00:19:49.767 --> 00:19:51.769
  • You'd expect conflicts.
  • 00:19:51.769 --> 00:19:53.537
  • You'd expect all kind of thing with a book
  • 00:19:53.537 --> 00:19:55.940
  • Put together like that, would you? logically.
  • 00:19:55.940 --> 00:19:58.542
  • But what do you find here?
  • 00:19:58.542 --> 00:20:00.077
  • You find progressive revelation.
  • 00:20:00.077 --> 00:20:02.380
  • You find god progressively revealing yourself
  • 00:20:02.380 --> 00:20:04.515
  • To man over a period of time.
  • 00:20:04.515 --> 00:20:06.317
  • You find truth all the way through here.
  • 00:20:06.317 --> 00:20:09.086
  • You see how prophecy is fulfilled here it is predicted.
  • 00:20:09.086 --> 00:20:12.356
  • Here it is fulfilled over here.
  • 00:20:12.356 --> 00:20:14.091
  • And you see the evolution.
  • 00:20:14.091 --> 00:20:15.693
  • You see the involvement
  • 00:20:15.693 --> 00:20:16.961
  • Of the progressive knowledge of god to the scripture.
  • 00:20:16.961 --> 00:20:19.363
  • And you see the thematic, the theme of it stays
  • 00:20:19.363 --> 00:20:22.366
  • Absolutely consistent all the way through.
  • 00:20:22.366 --> 00:20:25.369
  • And so we hold up and we see historians have not been able
  • 00:20:25.369 --> 00:20:29.273
  • To disprove one centimeter of this bible
  • 00:20:29.273 --> 00:20:33.010
  • Archeologists, as they dug into the past,
  • 00:20:33.844 --> 00:20:36.647
  • They've only found things that affirm the scripture,
  • 00:20:36.647 --> 00:20:39.517
  • Not anything that rejects the scripture.
  • 00:20:39.517 --> 00:20:42.253
  • You look at anthropologists, they study all these tribes,
  • 00:20:42.253 --> 00:20:45.423
  • All these ancient groups and sex,
  • 00:20:45.423 --> 00:20:47.291
  • And they say it rings true with a language, with the
  • 00:20:47.291 --> 00:20:50.127
  • Understanding of the scripture.
  • 00:20:50.127 --> 00:20:51.729
  • So you look at the bible, it stands up as truth.
  • 00:20:51.729 --> 00:20:55.132
  • Therefore jesus says the bible is true.
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  • The bible said jesus is truth, and the bible itself
  • 00:20:58.235 --> 00:21:01.339
  • Stands up as irreversible truth as in truth.
  • 00:21:01.339 --> 00:21:05.376
  • That is not circular reasoning.
  • 00:21:05.376 --> 00:21:06.944
  • It is founded there.
  • 00:21:06.944 --> 00:21:08.212
  • And then we look at jesus and see
  • 00:21:08.212 --> 00:21:10.147
  • How did he stack up against truth?
  • 00:21:10.147 --> 00:21:12.216
  • He didn't just teach these stuff and these principles.
  • 00:21:12.216 --> 00:21:16.187
  • He fleshed it out all the way through his death and
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  • Through his resurrection.
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  • That is the reason we
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  • Can put on this full armor, as we're instructed to,
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  • And know that we'll be able to do what will be able
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  • To stand,
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  • Stand firm.
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  • I spoke to
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  • A group of young parents
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  • When tonight was a week ago, and i thought of this
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  • And thought of it in years.
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  • I went to mississippi college.
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  • School outside
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  • Of jackson, mississippi, in clinton.
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  • And once we had abigail van buren to speak to us.
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  • Now, you know, dear abby,
  • 00:22:06.370 --> 00:22:08.672
  • You know all the newspapers, dear abby columns
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  • They write ask abby questions and and she'd answer them.
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  • And as she got through speaking, they asked her.
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  • They said, abby,
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  • Of all the answers you've given, what answer
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  • Did you give that got the most response from other writers?
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  • She said, that's easy.
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  • And she told this story.
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  • She said, i got a letter
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  • From a woman in idaho.
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  • Had be idaho,
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  • And she said that,
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  • She said, dear abby,
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  • I have always done my housework in the nude.
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  • And she said, i do it.
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  • Nobody's at home.
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  • I pull all the drapes all by.
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  • And she said, i just do my housework in the nude.
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  • And she said, i just wonder.
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  • I told my friends about it.
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  • She said, that's really weird.
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  • There may be something wrong with you.
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  • And she said, i don't know.
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  • Is that okay?
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  • Idaho?
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  • Abby answers a letter and sort of an ambiguous kind of way.
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  • She said, well,
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  • You know, you're by yourself doing your housework.
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  • That's what you do. i don't see any problem.
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  • But she said, you might better go get some, you know,
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  • Psychological counseling of some kind to make sure it's,
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  • You know, it's okay.
  • 00:23:17.341 --> 00:23:18.175
  • And abby said as a result of her response,
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  • She got letters of strong response on both sides.
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  • Some people wrote and said,
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  • Well, what in the world is the matter? she's by herself.
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  • She does her housework.
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  • Nobody's there by trouble.
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  • What's wrong with that?
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  • It's crazy for you to question that.
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  • That's no big deal.
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  • Others wrote and said, obviously the woman is
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  • Psychotic.
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  • She's out of her mind.
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  • She needs to get immediate
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  • Help. somebody
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  • Would do their housework without any clothes on.
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  • And then abby tells the group, they're in my school,
  • 00:23:48.072 --> 00:23:51.342
  • She said.
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  • Then i got an avalanche of letters,
  • 00:23:52.476 --> 00:23:55.379
  • But she said, one letter stands out.
  • 00:23:55.379 --> 00:23:58.282
  • This woman wrote, it says, dear abby in response
  • 00:23:58.282 --> 00:24:02.219
  • To the woman who did her housework in the nude.
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  • Let me tell you what happened to me,
  • 00:24:05.389 --> 00:24:07.525
  • She said a few weeks back.
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  • I got up, took a shower, put on an old robe
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  • And said i started to wash day.
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  • She said.
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  • I went and got the dirty clothes,
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  • My kids room and all of our dirty clothes and hamper said.
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  • I took them down in the basement,
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  • But i do all my washing down there.
  • 00:24:23.207 --> 00:24:25.276
  • And she said while i was down there, i,
  • 00:24:25.276 --> 00:24:27.711
  • I was trying something and there was steam in the air
  • 00:24:27.711 --> 00:24:30.247
  • And she said, my hair, i just got it fixed.
  • 00:24:30.247 --> 00:24:32.082
  • It was straightened and falling and she said,
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  • I want to do something. they cover my head.
  • 00:24:34.151 --> 00:24:35.953
  • And she said, i reached over.
  • 00:24:35.953 --> 00:24:37.021
  • They got my son's football helmet and put it on.
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  • You know, you ladies understand it's covered.
  • 00:24:40.858 --> 00:24:42.626
  • And it was her.
  • 00:24:42.626 --> 00:24:43.761
  • And she said, there i was.
  • 00:24:43.761 --> 00:24:45.162
  • And she said, all of a sudden i put something in the washer
  • 00:24:45.162 --> 00:24:47.798
  • And i saw how dirty my robe was.
  • 00:24:47.798 --> 00:24:49.500
  • She said, you nobody around.
  • 00:24:49.500 --> 00:24:51.368
  • I don't have any clothes because, you know,
  • 00:24:51.368 --> 00:24:52.570
  • I just took my robe off and put in the washer, she said.
  • 00:24:52.570 --> 00:24:55.506
  • I was standing there, my football helmet
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  • Without any clothes on in the basement.
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  • Nobody there.
  • 00:24:59.643 --> 00:25:01.278
  • And she said, all of a sudden i heard a noise
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  • And she
  • 00:25:05.449 --> 00:25:06.550
  • Said, i looked over the other side of the basement,
  • 00:25:06.550 --> 00:25:08.786
  • And in walks the man to read the gas meter.
  • 00:25:08.786 --> 00:25:14.124
  • And she said, i screamed
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  • And said he hollered
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  • And he said, i'm sorry,
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  • I'm sorry, and he starts going out the door, but says as
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  • He went out the door, he said, lady,
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  • I sure hope your team wins.
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  • Let me tell you something.
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  • If we put on the full armor of the lord jesus christ
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  • And take all of you and take off me,
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  • Let me tell you something.
  • 00:25:50.728 --> 00:25:51.762
  • That helmet and all the rest of it will be
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  • On the winning team for god in the 21st
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  • Century.
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  • Your word is a lamp to my feet,
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  • A light into my path.
  • 00:26:05.476 --> 00:26:07.845
  • Notice the promise in that verse.
  • 00:26:07.845 --> 00:26:10.280
  • A lamp for my feet i can see right here.
  • 00:26:10.280 --> 00:26:13.083
  • A light for your path.
  • 00:26:13.083 --> 00:26:14.652
  • We can see out there.
  • 00:26:14.652 --> 00:26:16.987
  • Not just inspiration.
  • 00:26:16.987 --> 00:26:18.789
  • For a moment, but guidance for a lifetime.
  • 00:26:18.789 --> 00:26:24.128
  • The christian life
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  • Was never meant to be lived casually,
  • 00:26:26.597 --> 00:26:30.134
  • But it is a walk, a daily, intentional,
  • 00:26:30.134 --> 00:26:33.470
  • Fateful walk with the lord jesus christ.
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  • That's the heartbeat of this book.
  • 00:26:37.074 --> 00:26:39.877
  • The winning walk in his pages, i share practical,
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  • Biblical principles that will help you cultivate
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  • A consistent devotional life, applying god's truth
  • 00:26:46.850 --> 00:26:51.555
  • In the practical realities of everyday living.
  • 00:26:51.555 --> 00:26:54.992
  • This isn't about religion.
  • 00:26:55.559 --> 00:26:57.661
  • It's about relationship.
  • 00:26:57.661 --> 00:26:59.596
  • It's about learning to trust god step by step
  • 00:26:59.596 --> 00:27:03.167
  • And stay in step with our lord.
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  • The christ.
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  • So i encourage you to call the number on your screen
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  • And request your copy of the winning walk.
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  • Do it today.
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  • And then we begin walking victoriously,
  • 00:27:15.112 --> 00:27:18.015
  • One step at a time.
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