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Ed Young - Building Strong Families

November 5, 2025 | 29:0

Ed Young - Building Strong Families
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 - Building Strong Families | November 5, 2025
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  • Pastor ed young: in college, i was taking a course in russian
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  • History, and i'm sure that i read "the communist manifesto,"
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  • Became acquainted with words like bourgeoisie, but i don't
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  • Remember it.
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  • But somebody gave me, about a couple of months ago, two copies
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  • Of that little pamphlet that was written by marx and engels, and
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  • I picked it up.
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  • And i knew the thesis of communism: from each according
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  • To his ability, to each according to his need.
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  • And the thesis sounds utopian and wonderful; the only problem
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  • Is it has never, never worked when it's been tried in history.
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  • In fact, you could easily build a case conservatively that over
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  • 100 million people have lost their lives and been slaughtered
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  • At the foot of that atheistic view of life.
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  • When i read it, i was thumbing it, but in the early pages i
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  • Encountered something that was absolutely breathtaking.
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  • It said simply that for there to be a communistic society,
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  • This is pseudo-utopianism, you had to first of all totally
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  • Obliterate and destroy the family.
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  • First and foremost, get rid of any semblance, any sign of the
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  • Family, we would call it the nuclear family.
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  • You know why it's called nuclear?
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  • It's not for the energy; we connect the
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  • Word nuclear with that.
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  • It is the nucleus, nuclear, of all civilization, the family.
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  • In these revolutionaries's view, as long as the family was
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  • Functioning, and the family was the center of our society and of
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  • Our lives, that would be a foundation upon which could not
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  • Be destroyed, the family.
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  • And then it hit me, you know, god established three
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  • Institutions, we've talked about that: the family first, civil
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  • Government second, and the church third.
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  • So it seemed only natural that, if you want to destroy a
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  • Culture, you destroy the first institution god brought into
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  • Being, begin with marriage.
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  • God performed the ceremony, remember?
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  • Adam and eve.
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  • And we said over and over again, "how does a marriage function?
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  • Leave, cleave, one flesh, no shame."
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  • And before the infamous bite was taken from the apple on the
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  • Tree, if it were an apple, i think it was, already you see
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  • The freedom of choice beginning to deteriorate the four
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  • Principles of marriage.
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  • Leave, in other words, leave all things, all others, all
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  • Other relationships.
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  • Evidently, when eve needed adam more than any other time, when
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  • The serpent, when satan came, adam had somehow left and was
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  • Doing other things.
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  • Cleave, hold onto one another.
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  • Evidently, they were not holding onto one another, already the
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  • Pre-sin activity.
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  • One flesh, one flesh; they were not one, they were acting
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  • Independently, and when eve had eaten the apple, all of a sudden
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  • She gave it to adam, and adam blamed eve, and eve blamed the
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  • Serpent, and both of them blamed god.
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  • You see, already there was a disintegration of the family,
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  • Which was marriage at the core of it.
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  • So here is satan, attacking the family, marriage, through this
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  • "das kapital."
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  • And then we see all the rest of it coming down through "the
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  • Communist manifesto."
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  • And now we see satan's first attack, in all of his agenda,
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  • Was on marriage and the family.
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  • And then i awakened and said, "we're studying woke-ism," which
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  • Is not just an ideology, it's become a religion.
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  • Why, if you don't get in with the program, look at every
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  • Institution in america, and for that matter, almost around the
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  • World today; they are all growing in understanding of
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  • What it means to be woke.
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  • And if you're not woke, i can tell ya, you, in all
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  • Probability, at different rates, you will be canceled.
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  • Yeah, you'll be cancelled.
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  • By the way, they wanted to cancel jesus, remember?
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  • And they did cancel him.
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  • All the institutions of that time and that day said, "crucify
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  • Him," so they cancelled him, and they nailed him to an x-mark of
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  • Cancellization, and satan said, "amen."
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  • By the way, demonic forces use our language, you notice?
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  • Amen, so let it be.
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  • Jesus had been canceled, but what happened to
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  • That cancellation?
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  • There was a resurrection.
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  • [congregation applauding]
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  • So we come to this point, we ask the question, does the word of
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  • God have any instruction for us?
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  • Open your bibles to matthew chapter number 7, and you
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  • Couldn't have a better instruction for all of us than
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  • The words of jesus in the sermon on the mount.
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  • Verse 24, following, "whoever hears these words of mine, and
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  • Acts on them, may be compared to a wise man," a wise person, "who
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  • Built his house on rock.
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  • And the rain fell and the floods came, and the winds blew and
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  • Slammed against the house."
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  • Let me tell you something, folks, i like that word
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  • Translated here slammed.
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  • And every marriage, every family, everybody knows about
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  • What it means to be slammed against, slammed against.
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  • "slammed against the house; and yet does not fail,
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  • For it had been founded on the rock."
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  • Ooh, a marriage, a family stands.
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  • The contrast: jesus says, "everyone who hears these words
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  • Of mine, and does not act on them," they just hear, "will be
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  • Like a fool, a foolish man," a foolish person, "who built his
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  • House on sand," huh.
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  • "and the rain fell and the floods came, the winds blew and
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  • Slammed against the house; and it fell--and great was
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  • The fall" of that family that was built on sand.
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  • Let's make this personal, folks.
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  • Is your marriage, your life, single or married or not, is it
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  • Built on sand?
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  • We're talking about the family.
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  • Let me tell you what a marriage, a family built on sand--
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  • A marriage built on sand starts, usually, with a couple's
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  • Being unequally yoked together.
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  • What in the world does that mean?
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  • It means the husband believes one thing about this, the wife
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  • Believes something else about this; it means one is a
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  • Christian, one is not a christian; it means they're
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  • Going in opposite directions, they haven't agreed.
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  • How any marriage can stand when they're reading different rule
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  • Books and different principles, i don't know, but a lot of times
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  • We fall in love on the basis of, we call it love, but it's
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  • Probably more lust.
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  • I'm not against chemistry in relationship.
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  • Sure, that's a part, but marriages that are two
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  • Individuals living by different rule books, it's like playing
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  • Tennis; one person gets two points every time they make a
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  • Point and the other one gets one, and the lines are different
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  • And the rules are different.
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  • And guess what?
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  • That's not gonna be any fun.
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  • You take anything we do, and one side is playing by one book,
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  • Another side playing by another book, and of all things, in
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  • Marriage, the most intimate and sacred of relationships.
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  • So, the unequal yoke.
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  • And in the unequal yoke, and by the way--how to say this?
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  • "oh, you didn't mention this, you didn't get--"
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  • Well, just stay with us, we're in general principles i hope
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  • That you will hear and act and apply.
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  • And then they're unequally yoked, and then what happens?
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  • So many, many times, there's adultery, so many--
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  • Porneia, sexual immorality, there's adultery.
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  • And then, the other reason for divorce, given the bible,
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  • Is desertion.
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  • And boy, that's interpreted far and wide.
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  • Lot of marriages stay together in form but they're really have
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  • Deserted from one another, haven't they?
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  • You do your thing, i'll do my thing.
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  • Oh, we meet once in a while.
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  • So there are the two grounds, and really, you see that in so
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  • Many marriages because they were unequally yoked, different
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  • Principles going in.
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  • And now they get in, and here is adultery and here is desertion,
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  • Not just leaving, but deserted in working together,
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  • Teaming together.
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  • And then all of a sudden there's a divorce.
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  • What is divorce, ladies and gentlemen?
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  • I'll tell you exactly what it is.
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  • When you get married and i get married, two become one, and
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  • Divorce is when that marriage commits suicide.
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  • So here's what happens: suicide takes place, and then sometimes
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  • People get married again feeling they have biblical grounds, and
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  • Many times they do, but they don't change.
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  • They go in with the same kind of twisted view of life and
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  • Marriage and family, and it happens again, and it
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  • Happens again.
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  • And it's always the other person's fault, have
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  • You noticed?
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  • Tragedy. the attack is on the family.
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  • And when this happens, you know what the devil says?
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  • "amen."
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  • Yeah, one of our words, "so let it be, i've won."
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  • And then the product of this tragedy are children, children.
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  • Well, here are children.
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  • What happens to children?
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  • Usually they become a ping pong ball because the husband, the
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  • Daddy, and the mother, they want to make sure the children
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  • Understand that, "i'm right," she's right, he's right."
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  • And they so many times try to over-spoil, and do, and love
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  • Those little children who've gone through the divorce because
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  • "i want you to know your daddy loves you more than your mother
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  • Loves you," and you beat the children up.
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  • What happens to the children?
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  • They have lost the model, the pattern of what god intends for
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  • Family, and how children ought to be brought up, they've
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  • Lost it.
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  • The children are out there in never-never land, and they're
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  • Looking for authority and principle and understanding, and
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  • Usually mom and dad in divorce, they don't want to
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  • Discipline very much, or she'll side with him, or he'll side
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  • With her, right?
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  • I'm telling you just the way it is, ladies and gentlemen.
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  • So the children, then, are looking for some course, and
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  • Where do they go?
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  • Usually they go into the schools of education, right?
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  • They go into the classroom, and they're looking for a father or
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  • A mother or a mentor, somebody who cares, somebody who will
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  • Listen, somebody even who will discipline.
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  • You go to a public school today in our city, in our counties, in
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  • Our america, and about, i don't know what percentage, an
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  • Overwhelming percentage of them, they'll be taught the
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  • Woke agenda.
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  • They even have teachers at large who go through to teach the
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  • Teachers how to teach woke-ness to the children without mom and
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  • Dad ever finding out.
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  • Oh yes, they're all over the country, they're specialists.
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  • And then our children are there, they're looking for voices.
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  • And i recently heard about a teacher, i think it was in
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  • Dallas, in the sixth grade, she discovered 90% of her children
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  • In the sixth grade could not read simple sentences with any
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  • Semblance of understanding.
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  • She went to the principal, or head of school, then to the
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  • School board, and told them, and they took a survey, and sure
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  • Enough, only about 80% of them could read with any semblance
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  • Of understanding.
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  • And the school board said, "don't you tell anybody, don't
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  • You do anything," just promote them right up.
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  • Therefore, they can't read with the understanding, so they have
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  • To listen and be indoctrinated in woke-ism in the classroom.
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  • Now, if a couple is prosperous enough to send your son or
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  • Daughter to an independent private school--many, many times
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  • With great sacrifice.
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  • If they attend a school that is approved by the national
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  • Association of independent schools, and by the way, i would
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  • Say most of the prestigious schools in this city are
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  • Approved by this particular group and get their
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  • Accreditation there.
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  • If your son or daughter happens to be there, this is true across
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  • America by the way, when they go in, they sign something called a
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  • Certificate of cooperation.
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  • Follow me.
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  • And when a mom or dad signs this, it simply says that the
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  • Mom or dad will not try to interject what they believe or
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  • What they think in the educational process.
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  • "mom and dad, you stay out of this.
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  • When you take your child or your child gets up here 8 o'clock
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  • In the morning, they stay 'til 3 or 4 o'clock in the
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  • Afternoon, they belong to us, and don't you get involved
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  • In that."
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  • If you do, says this statement up front, your child can be
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  • Dismissed by the board, and none of your money will be refunded.
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  • Welcome to russia, that's where we are.
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  • And when you build your family on sand, when the wind, the
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  • Rains, when all of this is flung against your family, god says
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  • That family will not stand.
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  • And many of us could give testimony to that, many of us
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  • Can say, "i understand that."
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  • Many of us will say, in fact, "that's where i am, i get that."
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  • But then jesus goes on to say, "but if you build your family on
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  • Rock," on the rock, where does that phrase come from?
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  • Caesarea philippi.
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  • Jesus took the apostles out, way up at the headwaters of the
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  • Jordan river.
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  • I've been there, beautiful spot, pristine.
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  • And at the headwaters, jesus sat down with his apostles, he began
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  • To teach them, preparing them for the storm and the winds and
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  • The rains, and all the 1st century woke-ism they would have
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  • To deal with.
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  • And finally, he asked, "well guys, who do people say that
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  • I am?"
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  • Oh, you get the public opinion, this, that and the other.
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  • He said, "who do you say that i am?"
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  • Whoa, whoa, wait a minute.
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  • Peter says, "you're the christ, you're the messiah, you're the
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  • One the old testament has promised, you are god in human
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  • Flesh, fulfilling all prophesy, to instruct us and give us the
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  • Way of salvation now and salvation forever.
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  • You are the messiah."
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  • How did jesus respond?
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  • He said, "peter, flesh and blood didn't tell you this," you
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  • Didn't come to it by logic, "the holy spirit led you to
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  • Say this."
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  • And on peter's profession of faith, not on peter, "on your
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  • Profession of faith," said jesus, "i will build my church,"
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  • My body of activity in the world, "my church."
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  • And he says, "the gates of hell will not prevail against
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  • My church."
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  • But the church has to be the church.
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  • In other words, the gates of hell can't keep the church out.
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  • The problem is, the church has been so dead and complacent,
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  • They haven't even tried to get in.
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  • You and the church can be complicit in all of this.
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  • We just join up, "i'm just part of it now.
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  • You know, i don't want to go against the streams of history."
  • 00:18:43.301 --> 00:18:46.871
  • What a stupid statement.
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  • "well, i'm just complicit."
  • 00:18:49.106 --> 00:18:51.075
  • A lot of churches, a lot of people are complicit, "oh yeah,
  • 00:18:51.075 --> 00:18:53.578
  • I oughta get with the program, i want to get with the program,"
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  • And lot are complacent.
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  • "oh man, i don't want to rock the boat, i don't wanna get in
  • 00:19:00.318 --> 00:19:03.154
  • An argument, i don't want to stir up any problem, i'm gonna
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  • Just keep complacent."
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  • And we take the same advice that sam rayburn gave to john kennedy
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  • When they won the house.
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  • Mr. kennedy asked, "well, what can i do up here in congress?"
  • 00:19:13.664 --> 00:19:16.267
  • And rayburn said, "well, you wanna get along, you go along."
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  • Washingtonian philosophy that is deadly then and deadly today.
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  • So you're either complicit, you've joined in, or you're
  • 00:19:27.378 --> 00:19:31.882
  • Complacent, or you're courageous.
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  • Are you tired of stooping, folks?
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  • If there's ever a time in history, it is the time for
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  • God's people to stand now.
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  • [congregation applauding]
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  • A church built, a family built on sand will not survive when
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  • The storms come, but built on that profession of faith in
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  • Jesus christ.
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  • And by the way, let me just tell you something.
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  • A lot of people can tell you about, "you know, i've had an
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  • Experience with jesus."
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  • I've had experiences with jesus.
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  • You know the thing about experience with jesus?
  • 00:20:49.860 --> 00:20:52.997
  • It comes and goes, oh yeah, it's subjective.
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  • I had an experience with jesus.
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  • Boy, it happened at beach retreat, it happened
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  • On a mountain, it happened in church, it happened in sunday
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  • School, it happened-- i had an experience with jesus.
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  • That's all great, i've had a lot of experience with jesus, many
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  • Of you have, but i can tell you something: that's not enough,
  • 00:21:11.148 --> 00:21:16.821
  • Because an experience of jesus is subjective.
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  • You can't debate with me about my experience with jesus, i
  • 00:21:21.926 --> 00:21:24.929
  • Can't debate with you, but i'll tell you what, when the storms
  • 00:21:24.929 --> 00:21:28.099
  • Come, you'd better have more than just a subjective number of
  • 00:21:28.099 --> 00:21:34.038
  • Experiences with jesus, you'd better have the fact of jesus.
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  • You see, facts are objective.
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  • We better have the life of jesus, and his teaching, which
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  • We're able to follow when we're in christ, empowered by the holy
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  • Spirit, and we better understand the crucifixion of jesus, and
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  • The resurrection of jesus.
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  • Those are facts, that's objectivity.
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  • And ladies and gentlemen, you can call yourself christian till
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  • You're blue in the face.
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  • Say, "ah, i had an experience with jesus, i walked down the
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  • Aisle, i was baptized, i was confirmed, i had a membership to
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  • This, i taught a class."
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  • Doesn't mean a different in the world, that is words, that is
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  • Subjectivity; unless your experience of jesus is based
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  • Upon objective truth, and that will be there forever, and
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  • Is undebatable.
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  • And if you run around and say, "boy, i love jesus, but i don't
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  • Like his church."
  • 00:22:32.997 --> 00:22:35.499
  • Oh, that's like saying, "i love to swim, and i got a pool in my
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  • Backyard, but i never jump in."
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  • "man, i love to go to the mountains, and i have many
  • 00:22:43.941 --> 00:22:46.777
  • Chances to go, but you know, i just hardly ever go."
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  • Does that make sense to anybody?
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  • Does that ring true?
  • 00:22:53.918 --> 00:22:56.320
  • That's hearing and professing, that's subjectivity; but
  • 00:22:56.320 --> 00:23:00.624
  • Objectivity is, "man, that's just where i want to be, and to
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  • Whom i want to belong."
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  • Built on the rock, solid rock, which is jesus christ, that's
  • 00:23:07.865 --> 00:23:16.874
  • What has to be in a marriage and a family, if it is not only to
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  • Survive, but it is to thrive, and it is to sing.
  • 00:23:21.745 --> 00:23:27.051
  • So, a family built on sand, slammed, slammed, crumbles;
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  • A family built on rock, slammed, stands.
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  • What's the difference?
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  • The foundation, the foundation.
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  • Over 80 times in the bible, the word foundation is mentioned,
  • 00:23:49.273 --> 00:23:52.710
  • Over 80 times.
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  • And jesus says it's the foundation, is it sand or rock?
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  • I go to your house, your home, one room, 700 rooms, doesn't
  • 00:23:59.950 --> 00:24:03.387
  • Make any difference.
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  • When i go in, i look at the decor, and i look at, you know,
  • 00:24:05.489 --> 00:24:08.425
  • Just casual, how you live, and it's comfortable, it's fine.
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  • I don't--you don't go in and say, "i want to show you my
  • 00:24:11.462 --> 00:24:13.864
  • Foundation--my house, lookie here."
  • 00:24:13.864 --> 00:24:17.635
  • But what's the most important thing?
  • 00:24:17.635 --> 00:24:20.838
  • It's the unseen foundation, ladies and gentlemen.
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  • And we don't notice we have a foundation until cracks begin to
  • 00:24:24.608 --> 00:24:27.811
  • Come, maybe a fissure begins to come, and somehow the house
  • 00:24:27.811 --> 00:24:32.583
  • Begins to tilt a little bit.
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  • You say, "my goodness, i have foundational problems."
  • 00:24:35.553 --> 00:24:41.091
  • A lot of people need not just to hear what christ is saying to us
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  • Today in this woke culture, we need to awaken and check our
  • 00:24:46.163 --> 00:24:50.134
  • Foundation, our faithfulness, our discipline, our walk, our
  • 00:24:50.134 --> 00:24:55.506
  • Abc christianity that is based, certainly on experience with
  • 00:24:55.506 --> 00:25:00.144
  • Jesus, don't misunderstand that, but it based on the fact
  • 00:25:00.144 --> 00:25:04.281
  • Of jesus.
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  • That's objective truth.
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  • On objective truth, we can have a wonderful, emotional,
  • 00:25:08.252 --> 00:25:11.555
  • Life-changing experiences.
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  • He said if you want a home that is built on a solid foundation,
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