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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - A Broken Worldview | June 30, 2026
- Let me tell you something, ladies and gentlemen.
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- That's our basic problem.
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- The problem with the prodigal, the problem with america.
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- We have taken our faith.
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- They said, keep it up there. it's okay.
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- You guys stay behind the church.
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- Go to church on sunday. it's alright.
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- Don't take your faith and your integrity
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- And your god and your christ in the marketplace.
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- Man that belongs to another dimension entirely.
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- So we live in a divided culture and a divided world.
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- And that's one reason that we're
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- In a prodigal society and culture today.
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- America
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- Today is broke
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- And broken
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- And this is where we are.
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- And therefore, in thinking about how
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- We're going to address the fact that washington is broken
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- And wall street is broken, the courts are broken,
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- The schools are broken, the families broken.
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- How we get to that brokenness.
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- I thought we'd better begin by a biblical personality
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- Through a biblical personality who was broke and broken.
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- And i
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- Thought immediately of the prodigal son,
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- The greatest story ever told.
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- And i think it was a real life
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- Personality that jesus was talking about.
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- Here was someone who had a
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- Broken world,
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- And he ended up being broke and broken.
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- Therefore, we can learn from
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- The prodigal.
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- I invite you to stand with me
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- As i read this story.
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- Would everyone stand up?
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- Jesus said,
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- A certain man had two sons,
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- And the younger of them said to the father.
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- Father, give me, will you say, give me.
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- Let's say it resoundingly.
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- Give me.
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- Father, give me the portion of goods that fall into me.
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- And he divided unto them his living and might not
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- Many days after the younger son gathered all together,
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- And took his journey into a far country.
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- And there wasted
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- Say the word wasted,
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- Wasted his substance with riotous living.
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- And when he had spent all there
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- Rows of mighty famine in the land.
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- And he began to be, and won't say that he began to
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- Be in want.
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- He began to be in want.
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- And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country,
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- And he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
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- And he would fain have filled his belly
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- With the huss that the swine did eat.
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- And no man gave unto him.
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- Say that no man gave unto him.
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- And when he came to himself, and when he came to himself,
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- Say that.
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- And when he came to himself, say it again.
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- And when he came to himself, he said,
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- How many hired servants of my father
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- Have bread enough and despair, and i perish with hunger.
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- I rise and go to my father, and i will say unto him,
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- Father, i
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- Have sinned against heaven, and before thee
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- Am no more worthy to be called thy son.
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- Make me
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- As one of thy hired servants.
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- And he arose and came to his father.
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- But when he was yet a great way off,
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- The father saw him, and had compassion, and ran,
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- And fell on his neck, and kissed him.
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- And the son said unto him,
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- Father, i send against heaven in
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- Thy sight am no longer worthy to be called thy son.
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- But the father said to the servants,
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- Bring the best robe, and put it on him.
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- And put a ring on his hand,
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- And shoes on his feet,
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- And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it,
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- And let us eat, and be merry.
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- For this my son was dead,
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- And is alive again.
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- He was lost, and is found.
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- And they began
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- To celebrate, to be merry,
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- To have a party.
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- Everybody has a world view.
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- You say, well, i don't know if i have one or not.
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- Sure you do.
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- It's how we look at the world.
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- A worldview is like lens in your eyes.
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- You look through the lens and your eyes.
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- You do not see the lens in your eyes.
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- You look through those lens and you see the world.
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- And we all have a worldview.
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- And this view in which you have and i have,
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- And how we see the world of what we do, where we go,
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- How we act, how we live, the choices we make.
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- It is based on your worldview and my worldview.
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- And there are
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- Many classical worldviews,
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- And we need to look at them and understand
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- Something about them as how people all over this world,
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- Including those of us here, how we look at the world,
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- How we look at life, how we make those choices.
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- First of all, there is christian theism.
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- People look at the world from this worldview.
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- It's a classical one.
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- There is deism.
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- There is naturalism.
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- There is nihilism.
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- There is existentialism.
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- There is eastern pantheistic monism.
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- You say, well, what's all of that?
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- That's worldview.
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- What about underneath that?
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- You can put new age modernism and postmodernism
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- There under the eastern pantheistic view.
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- And therefore we have all of these major
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- Classical worldviews as to how people move in
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- Every culture on this earth, in every nation, on this earth.
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- And we have to begin there.
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- Every one of these worldviews
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- Answers the basic questions of life,
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- The question of identity.
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- Who am i?
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- The question of origin.
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- Where did i come from?
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- The question of purpose.
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- Why am i here?
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- The question of destiny.
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- Where am i going?
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- Where will i end up?
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- All of these worldviews answers those basic questions.
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- I want everyone to listen carefully.
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- Teenagers, young people, adults, senior citizens.
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- Anybody who cannot answer those
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- For questions.
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- Origin,
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- A purpose.
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- Destiny.
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- You are not living a real, valid life.
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- An unexpected life
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- Is a life that's not worth living.
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- So therefore, we look at these worldviews
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- And we understand immediately that we all have them,
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- And we understand immediately that the prodigal
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- In our scripture, in our scripture,
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- Had a very distinctive worldview.
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- And we want to see the prodigals world,
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- The prodigals broken world,
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- And the prodigals redeemed,
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- Rebuilt, reconstructed world.
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- And as we look at the prodigal,
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- We will see where you and i fit in in the 21st century.
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- We'll see where america fits in.
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- Because the problem that we have in america,
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- If there is to be healing, it has to begin with you.
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- It has to begin with me.
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- It's not them. it's not those.
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- It's not out there.
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- It's every single one of us.
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- And that's the reason we have to begin on this bottom level.
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- We have discover here is a rock upon which we stand.
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- We have to
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- Understand what that rock is, and we have to see that
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- All other areas are shifting, seeking sin.
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- What is the rock upon which we stand?
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- The rock upon which america is hewn,
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- And therefore we
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- See how we have become prodigals?
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- Have we forgotten our moorings?
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- And we're much like this prodigal.
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- What was the prodigal worldview?
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- Where did he begin?
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- I can assure you it was a jewish worldview.
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- His father was head of the family.
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- His father would have
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- Tucked the children in
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- And put his hands on them and blessed them
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- And prayed for them every night.
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- They would have quoted the sheema together.
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- Deuteronomy six.
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- They would know the ten commandments.
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- Thou shalt have no other god before me.
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- They were a worshiping family in that jewish culture,
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- And you can be sure they had a mezuzah
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- That was by the doorpost of their house being obedient
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- To deuteronomy six, you know, going out and coming in.
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- And when they would go in, they would touch that mezuzah.
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- When they would go out, they would touch that mezuzah.
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- What was in that?
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- It was a ten commandments, part of the torah, a part of
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- The prophecy,
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- Distinctively jewish.
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- Perhaps they wore the hat.
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- Perhaps they had bindings on their arms, collectors
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- On their head.
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- It was a jewish family.
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- The prodigal came up jewish.
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- He was a religious person.
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- His father was the spiritual leader of the home.
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- But then one day he says,
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- Give me my part of the inheritance.
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- Now, i don't know if in that culture
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- That was appropriate or not.
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- I think it probably was.
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- It was okay, you know, dad, you're going to die.
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- I'm the youngest son.
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- Give me that portion that is mine.
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- Give me an interesting.
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- And the scripture, if you listen carefully.
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- It said the father divided his the inheritance between them.
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- The older son and the younger son.
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- Give me.
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- As we approach our fiscal
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- Year end on july the 31st.
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- We're also approaching a historic milestone.
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- Think about it.
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- America's 250th anniversary.
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- And as we reflect on what built this nation
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- Faith, family and freedom,
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- Fellowship, joy, meaning, significance, a family
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- Of god living together under the red, white and blue.
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- As we live under the banner of america,
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- We also recognize something deeply wrong.
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- Biblical truth is being challenged.
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- Families are under pressure and faith is no longer
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- At the center of our culture.
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- Now it's our turn.
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- Our turn to stand for what matters most.
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- Listen, when you request this much resource,
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- You're helping us proclaim the truth of god's word,
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- Strengthen families,
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- And advance faith across this great nation.
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- As i thank you, i would love to send you a signed
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- Copy of my book, healing broken america,
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- A book that i have written to help us understand
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- And to navigate our way through all the challenges
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- Of the 21st century in our land as we come to our fiscal
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- Year end.
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- I'm asking you to step forward in a meaningful way.
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- Consider a gift of $250,
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- Or really ten others, to give $25 a dollar
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- For every year of our nation's existence.
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- We give that to the winning walk so that it can continue
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- To be broadcast around the world.
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- Your support helps us bring biblical truth,
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- Encouragement, and meaning across america.
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- So let's stand together and believe god for renewal
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- And revival in our great nation.
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- For if america would catch far for christ,
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- It would touch the entire world.
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- Thank you.
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- Making this possible with your participation
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- In prayer and gifts to the winning walk.
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- Let me tell you something, ladies and gentlemen.
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- That's our basic problem.
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- The problem with the prodigal, the problem with america.
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- We have taken our faith.
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- They said, keep it up there. it's okay.
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- You guys stay behind the church.
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- Go to church on sunday. it's alright.
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- Don't take your faith and your integrity
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- And your god and your christ in the marketplace.
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- Man that belongs to another dimension entirely.
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- So we live in a divided culture and a divided world.
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- And that's one reason that we're
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- In a prodigal society and culture today.
- 00:14:21.105 --> 00:14:31.282
- Jo beth is a real person.
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- I can prove my wife is real scientifically.
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- You can weigh her and measure her and check her
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- Blood and her blood pressure and her brainwaves.
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- And i believe scientifically, i can use reason
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- And tell you that she is real.
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- Also, i
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- Can tell you she is real because of experience.
- 00:14:54.038 --> 00:14:56.674
- I have experienced her because i know her is the fact
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- That she is real through reason
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- And the fact she is real to experience.
- 00:15:02.246 --> 00:15:05.183
- You see, we say experience is up here.
- 00:15:06.017 --> 00:15:08.586
- It's subjective and oh, realism is down here
- 00:15:08.586 --> 00:15:12.023
- Only through reason.
- 00:15:12.023 --> 00:15:13.057
- Not so realism.
- 00:15:13.057 --> 00:15:15.827
- Realism comes to experience and reason and reason
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- And experience.
- 00:15:19.097 --> 00:15:19.998
- Some of us will come to faith
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- In christ because we have seen the logical, positive,
- 00:15:21.432 --> 00:15:26.104
- Coherent balance of a christian theistic
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- Worldview will come and say, this makes sense.
- 00:15:30.174 --> 00:15:33.711
- This is reasonable. it fits in.
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- It answers those basic questions
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- Of origin, the basic questions of destiny,
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- The basic questions of purpose, the basic questions.
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- It answers those questions.
- 00:15:47.425 --> 00:15:48.860
- Therefore, through reason, we come to faith in christ.
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- And then
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- After we come to faith, then we have
- 00:15:53.197 --> 00:15:54.899
- That experience of salvation most of us came to experience.
- 00:15:54.899 --> 00:15:59.103
- We heard the news, the gospel.
- 00:15:59.103 --> 00:16:00.738
- We experienced christ. we received him.
- 00:16:00.738 --> 00:16:02.974
- We put our faith down.
- 00:16:02.974 --> 00:16:04.509
- And now we use reason
- 00:16:04.509 --> 00:16:06.310
- To understand our belief and to have doctrinal understanding
- 00:16:06.310 --> 00:16:09.714
- To develop this christian theistic worldview.
- 00:16:09.714 --> 00:16:13.518
- So this is where we are today.
- 00:16:14.118 --> 00:16:16.921
- Now, where does christianity begin?
- 00:16:17.688 --> 00:16:21.092
- It begins right?
- 00:16:21.492 --> 00:16:22.827
- For the prodigal had his birth, his new beginning.
- 00:16:22.827 --> 00:16:26.431
- Here he was with a pig farmer,
- 00:16:26.431 --> 00:16:29.333
- Broken health, body, religion, estranged.
- 00:16:29.333 --> 00:16:33.271
- And then suddenly his
- 00:16:33.271 --> 00:16:35.740
- Experiential world, his world of faith
- 00:16:35.740 --> 00:16:38.409
- Came down to the world of reality.
- 00:16:38.409 --> 00:16:41.612
- See, when you're down and out and lost
- 00:16:41.612 --> 00:16:44.715
- And empty and sick and disenfranchized
- 00:16:44.715 --> 00:16:48.186
- And broken and broke, it all meets, doesn't it?
- 00:16:48.186 --> 00:16:52.023
- You can't divide it then.
- 00:16:52.023 --> 00:16:53.825
- And in that moment you have that wonderful phrase
- 00:16:53.825 --> 00:16:57.261
- It said he came to himself.
- 00:16:57.261 --> 00:17:00.798
- That's what's got to happen in your life
- 00:17:01.666 --> 00:17:03.768
- And in my life, in america's life, and all the prodigal
- 00:17:03.768 --> 00:17:07.972
- That we're about, we have to come to ourselves.
- 00:17:07.972 --> 00:17:11.609
- And what did he do when he came to himself?
- 00:17:11.609 --> 00:17:14.712
- Man, i love that. he got up.
- 00:17:15.313 --> 00:17:18.049
- He got up
- 00:17:18.349 --> 00:17:20.318
- And he made up a little speech.
- 00:17:20.318 --> 00:17:23.588
- He said, i'm going to my father.
- 00:17:23.588 --> 00:17:25.623
- Well, his father is involved in all this.
- 00:17:25.623 --> 00:17:27.892
- And he said, father, give me an that moment of extremity.
- 00:17:27.892 --> 00:17:31.395
- When no one gave it, he he had exploded
- 00:17:31.395 --> 00:17:33.865
- And lost everything his father had given him.
- 00:17:33.865 --> 00:17:36.634
- Now he goes back.
- 00:17:36.634 --> 00:17:37.835
- He says, father, i have sinned against heaven before thee.
- 00:17:37.835 --> 00:17:41.105
- I'm no longer worthy to be called thy son.
- 00:17:41.105 --> 00:17:43.107
- Make me as an hired servant.
- 00:17:43.107 --> 00:17:44.609
- He makes up his little speech, but when he turns
- 00:17:44.609 --> 00:17:47.145
- And he gets up, and he came to himself, as he's
- 00:17:47.145 --> 00:17:50.214
- Walking toward home, his father sees him.
- 00:17:50.214 --> 00:17:53.317
- He didn't see him clearly.
- 00:17:53.317 --> 00:17:54.652
- He was too far away.
- 00:17:54.652 --> 00:17:56.087
- But the father knew his stance.
- 00:17:56.087 --> 00:17:57.955
- The father had looked up that road, maybe for several years.
- 00:17:57.955 --> 00:18:01.058
- He sees that boy.
- 00:18:01.058 --> 00:18:02.460
- He's coming home. he's.
- 00:18:02.460 --> 00:18:03.794
- He's limping, he's broken.
- 00:18:03.794 --> 00:18:05.396
- He's without garments.
- 00:18:05.396 --> 00:18:06.797
- He's just barely covering the private parts.
- 00:18:06.797 --> 00:18:09.167
- He has no shoes and he's coming in.
- 00:18:09.167 --> 00:18:11.702
- The father sees him and he's running.
- 00:18:11.702 --> 00:18:13.738
- It's the only time in the bible you see god running.
- 00:18:13.738 --> 00:18:18.976
- God runs.
- 00:18:19.277 --> 00:18:20.478
- When we come to ourselves.
- 00:18:20.478 --> 00:18:22.013
- God runs the prodigals who want to come home and
- 00:18:22.013 --> 00:18:25.716
- Get back and stand on the rock from which they were hewn.
- 00:18:25.716 --> 00:18:28.886
- And the father ran and greeted him,
- 00:18:28.886 --> 00:18:31.455
- And he hugged him, and he kissed him.
- 00:18:31.455 --> 00:18:33.424
- And the little boy son started to make his feet.
- 00:18:33.424 --> 00:18:36.394
- Father, i have sinned against heaven.
- 00:18:36.394 --> 00:18:37.728
- The father just cut in the middle of the speech.
- 00:18:37.728 --> 00:18:40.097
- He never got through his little speech.
- 00:18:40.097 --> 00:18:42.533
- He said, man, bring a robe for him.
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- Bring a rain. he's a son.
- 00:18:45.136 --> 00:18:46.904
- Put jews on his feet. he's not a slave.
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- He's a family member.
- 00:18:49.507 --> 00:18:50.908
- He was dead. he's alive.
- 00:18:50.908 --> 00:18:52.476
- He's lost. he's found.
- 00:18:52.476 --> 00:18:54.278
- What a wonderful moment of seeing the prodigals
- 00:18:54.278 --> 00:18:57.215
- World rebuilt.
- 00:18:57.215 --> 00:19:00.051
- The prodigal coming back together.
- 00:19:00.818 --> 00:19:03.554
- And it's that kind of experience, individually
- 00:19:03.554 --> 00:19:07.091
- And collectively,
- 00:19:07.091 --> 00:19:08.259
- Will have to happen in america if we are to come back
- 00:19:08.259 --> 00:19:11.896
- To ourselves, remember who we are,
- 00:19:11.896 --> 00:19:15.700
- Come to ourselves.
- 00:19:16.133 --> 00:19:18.236
- When does christianity begin,
- 00:19:18.236 --> 00:19:21.372
- Say john
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- 316, oh no, no, no, it doesn't begin their.
- 00:19:22.607 --> 00:19:25.743
- Let me tell you exactly where christianity
- 00:19:25.743 --> 00:19:27.712
- Begins years ago.
- 00:19:27.712 --> 00:19:30.414
- It's your breath and i will go into israel.
- 00:19:30.414 --> 00:19:32.717
- We don't ally out.
- 00:19:32.717 --> 00:19:33.751
- We were on a plane, the middle section
- 00:19:33.751 --> 00:19:35.419
- There she was seated over here to my left and to my right.
- 00:19:35.419 --> 00:19:39.056
- I saw this man coming in.
- 00:19:39.056 --> 00:19:40.491
- I recognized him immediately.
- 00:19:40.491 --> 00:19:42.860
- It was senator howard metzenbaum from ohio.
- 00:19:42.860 --> 00:19:45.763
- And senator
- 00:19:46.097 --> 00:19:47.398
- Bob came in and set down right by me, induced myself.
- 00:19:47.398 --> 00:19:51.168
- Editor young from houston.
- 00:19:51.168 --> 00:19:52.870
- I'm senator metzenbaum.
- 00:19:52.870 --> 00:19:54.572
- I said, yes, senator, i know who you are now.
- 00:19:54.572 --> 00:19:56.807
- He had no idea what i did anything about me, and i liked
- 00:19:56.807 --> 00:20:00.911
- It. and so, you know, the old thing.
- 00:20:00.911 --> 00:20:06.517
- And when they find out you're a preacher,
- 00:20:06.517 --> 00:20:08.586
- One thing for sure, they shouldn't
- 00:20:08.586 --> 00:20:10.655
- Look at you and say, there goes a preacher.
- 00:20:10.655 --> 00:20:12.423
- But by the same token, when they find out,
- 00:20:12.423 --> 00:20:13.991
- They shouldn't be surprised.
- 00:20:13.991 --> 00:20:15.192
- So i ask him all these questions
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- For about 5 or 6 hours, eat together, etc.
- 00:20:17.295 --> 00:20:20.398
- And then finally
- 00:20:20.398 --> 00:20:22.900
- I said, senator, all the way through the conversation,
- 00:20:22.900 --> 00:20:25.503
- You kept saying, i'm a liberal, i'm a liberal.
- 00:20:25.503 --> 00:20:28.406
- I said, i'd like to ask you,
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- Would you give me a definition of what is a liberal?
- 00:20:29.740 --> 00:20:32.943
- He said it.
- 00:20:33.277 --> 00:20:34.312
- I'll be happy to.
- 00:20:34.312 --> 00:20:36.580
- He said, a liberal is someone who believes in
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- The constitution and the bylaws and believes in
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- Equal access under the law.
- 00:20:42.019 --> 00:20:44.755
- I said, senator, i believe that
- 00:20:44.755 --> 00:20:47.558
- That's exactly what i believe, and i'm not a liberal.
- 00:20:47.558 --> 00:20:52.830
- How do you explain that?
- 00:20:52.830 --> 00:20:55.066
- He said, you believe that?
- 00:20:55.633 --> 00:20:56.734
- I said absolutely, fervently, totally, completely.
- 00:20:56.734 --> 00:21:00.738
- That's who we are.
- 00:21:00.738 --> 00:21:02.106
- That's the contract, the constitution.
- 00:21:02.106 --> 00:21:03.974
- That's what i believe.
- 00:21:03.974 --> 00:21:05.776
- How can i be a conservative and you be a liberal?
- 00:21:05.776 --> 00:21:09.980
- And we believe the same thing by your definition
- 00:21:09.980 --> 00:21:12.450
- Of being a liberal,
- 00:21:12.450 --> 00:21:13.984
- He said, it's because you're so open and you're
- 00:21:13.984 --> 00:21:16.587
- You're just open to any thought or any idea.
- 00:21:16.587 --> 00:21:18.622
- You have such an open way.
- 00:21:18.622 --> 00:21:19.857
- I said, well.
- 00:21:19.857 --> 00:21:21.625
- You know.
- 00:21:21.625 --> 00:21:23.494
- I said, i'm open about a lot of things,
- 00:21:23.494 --> 00:21:25.529
- But a lot of things i'm sort of said, i'm closed.
- 00:21:25.529 --> 00:21:28.799
- I've nailed it down.
- 00:21:28.799 --> 00:21:31.502
- And i said, let me suggest
- 00:21:31.502 --> 00:21:33.838
- To you, senator, another way
- 00:21:33.838 --> 00:21:36.607
- To determine who's a liberal and who's a conservative.
- 00:21:36.607 --> 00:21:39.877
- I said, you're jewish.
- 00:21:39.877 --> 00:21:41.312
- He said, yes.
- 00:21:41.312 --> 00:21:42.780
- I said, you believe genesis one
- 00:21:42.780 --> 00:21:45.316
- One is literally true.
- 00:21:45.316 --> 00:21:48.219
- In the beginning, god created the heavens and the earth.
- 00:21:48.219 --> 00:21:53.057
- Do you
- 00:21:53.257 --> 00:21:53.958
- Believe that is literally true?
- 00:21:53.958 --> 00:21:56.727
- He looked at me and he said,
- 00:21:57.328 --> 00:22:00.197
- You know, they found that guy in that ice up there.
- 00:22:00.197 --> 00:22:03.367
- And, you know, in the arctic circle,
- 00:22:03.367 --> 00:22:06.437
- He'd been there for 5000 years.
- 00:22:06.437 --> 00:22:08.873
- I said, yeah, i heard about that.
- 00:22:08.873 --> 00:22:12.209
- He said,
- 00:22:12.476 --> 00:22:13.544
- He said, you may not know, but in the hebrew, the
- 00:22:13.544 --> 00:22:16.147
- The word of dam and eve mcgann mean mankind and womankind.
- 00:22:16.147 --> 00:22:19.950
- And i said, yeah, seems like i've heard of that
- 00:22:19.950 --> 00:22:22.620
- Before.
- 00:22:22.620 --> 00:22:25.656
- He said, ask the question again.
- 00:22:26.357 --> 00:22:27.892
- I said, sir, do you believe
- 00:22:27.892 --> 00:22:30.828
- Genesis one one is literally true?
- 00:22:30.828 --> 00:22:33.063
- In the beginning, god created the heavens and the earth.
- 00:22:33.063 --> 00:22:36.467
- He looked at me and said, no,
- 00:22:37.101 --> 00:22:40.438
- I don't believe it.
- 00:22:40.905 --> 00:22:42.339
- And i said, senator, you're a liberal.
- 00:22:42.339 --> 00:22:47.344
- That for a christianity starts
- 00:22:47.945 --> 00:22:50.314
- And it goes to john 316.
- 00:22:50.314 --> 00:22:53.217
- And let me tell you something, we have to understand that
- 00:22:53.217 --> 00:22:56.387
- As christians, we're going
- 00:22:56.387 --> 00:22:57.488
- To be swimming upstream in a broken world.
- 00:22:57.488 --> 00:23:00.424
- We have to make sure that we are not broken world people.
- 00:23:00.424 --> 00:23:04.094
- And it begins with coming to faith in jesus christ
- 00:23:04.094 --> 00:23:07.465
- And living it with a life of faithfulness.
- 00:23:07.465 --> 00:23:13.471
- Now. you
- 00:23:13.737 --> 00:23:17.575
- See, america is like humpty dumpty.
- 00:23:17.575 --> 00:23:20.511
- Humpty dumpty sat on a wall.
- 00:23:20.511 --> 00:23:23.013
- We were humpty dumpty.
- 00:23:23.013 --> 00:23:24.381
- We had the energy, the creativity,
- 00:23:24.381 --> 00:23:27.251
- The free enterprise system.
- 00:23:27.251 --> 00:23:28.986
- We were at the top of everything and everybody.
- 00:23:28.986 --> 00:23:31.655
- We were aggressive.
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- We were moving.
- 00:23:32.490 --> 00:23:33.457
- We were taking people from all over the world
- 00:23:33.457 --> 00:23:35.826
- And bringing them together.
- 00:23:35.826 --> 00:23:37.094
- And they became americans together.
- 00:23:37.094 --> 00:23:39.897
- They learned our language together.
- 00:23:39.897 --> 00:23:42.032
- We became one together.
- 00:23:42.032 --> 00:23:43.767
- And god did a tremendous work.
- 00:23:43.767 --> 00:23:45.836
- Because the more ings
- 00:23:45.836 --> 00:23:47.271
- Of our nation is based on biblical principles,
- 00:23:47.271 --> 00:23:50.708
- You just cannot deny it.
- 00:23:50.708 --> 00:23:52.510
- It is there.
- 00:23:52.510 --> 00:23:53.611
- It is who we are.
- 00:23:53.611 --> 00:23:54.879
- It is our identity.
- 00:23:54.879 --> 00:23:56.580
- And there we are together on that wall,
- 00:23:56.580 --> 00:24:00.451
- God blessing us, doing this, doing tremendous things.
- 00:24:00.451 --> 00:24:04.188
- But we've had a great fall
- 00:24:04.188 --> 00:24:08.259
- And we're still falling.
- 00:24:08.792 --> 00:24:12.029
- Humpty dumpty sat on a wall.
- 00:24:12.029 --> 00:24:13.731
- Humpty dumpty had a great fall.
- 00:24:13.731 --> 00:24:15.799
- Because humpty dumpty america.
- 00:24:15.799 --> 00:24:18.536
- You and i, we are broke and we live in a broken culture.
- 00:24:18.536 --> 00:24:23.107
- And many of our lives.
- 00:24:23.107 --> 00:24:24.542
- Or the story of brokenness.
- 00:24:24.542 --> 00:24:27.878
- Now, the bottom line is in the nursery rhyme,
- 00:24:28.812 --> 00:24:32.416
- Which, by the way, was about richard the third.
- 00:24:32.416 --> 00:24:35.386
- It was the way they could
- 00:24:35.386 --> 00:24:36.253
- Attack the king without him knowing it
- 00:24:36.253 --> 00:24:39.356
- Said all the king's arm and all the king's men
- 00:24:40.257 --> 00:24:42.693
- Couldn't put humpty dumpty back together again.
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- That's the question.
- 00:24:47.398 --> 00:24:48.399
- Is it not
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- All the king's army, all the king's men,
- 00:24:50.501 --> 00:24:52.970
- All the politicians, all the lawyers,
- 00:24:52.970 --> 00:24:55.306
- All the doctors, all the culture, all the marketplace?
- 00:24:55.306 --> 00:24:58.676
- We can't put humpty dumpty back together again.
- 00:24:58.676 --> 00:25:01.545
- Our america, only god and christ can do that.
- 00:25:01.545 --> 00:25:05.316
- As we move from being prodigals,
- 00:25:05.316 --> 00:25:07.585
- As we go back to the house of our father,
- 00:25:07.585 --> 00:25:10.921
- That's what it's going to take.
- 00:25:11.555 --> 00:25:15.426
- It's going to take a supernatural act
- 00:25:16.226 --> 00:25:19.263
- To put old humpty together
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- Because he's broken.
- 00:25:23.233 --> 00:25:25.336
- And we are broken.
- 00:25:25.336 --> 00:25:26.971
- People
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- Who live in a broken culture.
- 00:25:28.706 --> 00:25:31.675
- And that's where we have to begin
- 00:25:31.675 --> 00:25:35.079
- To make sure you and i are not really a part of the problem,
- 00:25:35.079 --> 00:25:39.583
- That we're really a part of the solution.
- 00:25:39.583 --> 00:25:42.219
- And so many of us, us who talk about it,
- 00:25:42.219 --> 00:25:45.055
- We think we're a part of the solution.
- 00:25:45.055 --> 00:25:46.790
- But because of our lack of faithfulness,
- 00:25:46.790 --> 00:25:49.860
- We're really a part of the problem.
- 00:25:50.628 --> 00:25:53.664
- And our prayer is, lord, heal
- 00:25:54.298 --> 00:25:58.302
- Our land, beginning with me
- 00:25:58.302 --> 00:26:01.138
- And beginning with you.
- 00:26:01.138 --> 00:26:04.441
- America the beautiful, our country
- 00:26:05.175 --> 00:26:08.412
- After home sweet home.
- 00:26:08.412 --> 00:26:10.447
- But our america is hurting.
- 00:26:10.447 --> 00:26:13.050
- We see it in our fractured, divided communities
- 00:26:13.050 --> 00:26:15.986
- And in our struggling families.
- 00:26:15.986 --> 00:26:18.689
- God's answer for a broken nation has never been found
- 00:26:18.689 --> 00:26:21.925
- In politics, power, or human effort alone.
- 00:26:21.925 --> 00:26:25.696
- God says, if my people who are called by
- 00:26:25.696 --> 00:26:28.766
- My name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and
- 00:26:28.766 --> 00:26:33.437
- Turn from their wicked ways, then i will hear from heaven,
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- Forgive their sin, and heal their land.
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- Healing begins when god's people return to him.
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- In his powerful book, healing broken america.
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- Doctor jung explores the spiritual path toward
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- Healing and restoration through faith, family,
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- And the values that have shaped generations of americans.
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- Because when
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- Hearts are transformed by god, lives are changed,
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- Families are restored, and the nation can begin to heal.
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- To get your copy of healing broken america.
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- Please call the number on your screen or visit
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- The website below.
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- And may god bless america.
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