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Ed Young - The Cost Of Freedom

July 29, 2025 | S25 E181 | 29:0

Ed Young - The Cost Of Freedom
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 Cost Of Freedom | July 29, 2025
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  • Pastor ed young: talk to anybody who was born in a foreign
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  • Country or who have lived for a period of time in the country of
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  • The united states, and listen to them, and in my experience
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  • Without exception they are frightened more at the woke-ness
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  • That america is now breeding than those of us who were born
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  • And raised here.
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  • They see what is happening here, in their judgment, it is a
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  • Tragic mirror of what they came out from, anywhere on the globe.
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  • This is a member of our church who gave a witness to what i
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  • Just said.
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  • Listen.
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  • Female: i live in houston for 22 years.
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  • I fled from china, but i cannot show my face because i'm
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  • Concerned of my family's safety back in china.
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  • In that region, you do not have any freedom, you do not have any
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  • Choice, you don't have a free speech, you don't have a
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  • Free religions.
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  • And we have churches, but those church leaders, they're
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  • Communist party member.
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  • If you have a bible study, which is authorized, the consider this
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  • A crime, you can be arrested.
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  • And i came to united states, just for not only freedom, and
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  • Offer the american dream and a fair chance.
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  • And this country's become more and more like communist.
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  • I can see what's happening here now, and which this country is
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  • Getting divided.
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  • That's not what i wanted to see this country become.
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  • As americans, i think we should wake up now, we should see the
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  • Big picture, what is coming.
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  • We cannot be influenced by the social media and by the media,
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  • What they told us.
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  • And we have to use our critical thinking to see the truth, to
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  • Dig a little bit, to spend a little more time to focus on
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  • What's going on.
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  • As christians, we're also called to stand up, to face the evil,
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  • To fight with the devil, and to not be silenced in front
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  • Of evil.
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  • And that's what we're supposed to do as christians now.
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  • Pastor ed young: from our church membership alone, we could have
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  • Hundreds, hundreds from countries around the world give
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  • Virtually the same witness that she's offered to us.
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  • So i want us, simply, to look at freedom, and remember something,
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  • The heavy price that was paid for freedom.
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  • If you want to have an exercise at history, just take a long
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  • Look, and take america out of the equation of the world, and
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  • See what you would perceive would happen in the world today
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  • At a heavy price.
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  • We have 155 cemeteries in which our heroes are buried,
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  • In 42 states in the united states.
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  • We have other sections of most of our cemeteries, that are
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  • Given to veterans who've been brought back home, who paid the
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  • Ultimate price, over 4 million people.
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  • There's another at least 130,000 that are buried in some
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  • 17 different countries all around the world, and their
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  • Remains were not even brought back to the united states.
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  • The cost of freedom.
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  • You remember when i quoted martin luther king, i'll
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  • Paraphrase him and what he said at southern methodist university
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  • About a year and a half before he was executed, murdered,
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  • Became a martyr.
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  • He said that as long as there is division in the racial
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  • Equations, black feeling they're superior to white, white feeling
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  • They're superior to black, prejudice, bigotry on either
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  • Side, dr. king said a nation will never be free.
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  • As long as this is going on, if dr. king were standing here, he
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  • Would say you can't have a nation that is free.
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  • But thank god, 99.9% of us have come through that dark, demonic
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  • Valley, have we not?
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  • So we look at the first amendment, the bill of rights,
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  • The constitution, boy, it talks about freedom.
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  • You've got four big words about freedom, and all four of those
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  • Freedoms are in jeopardy today because of the woke agenda that
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  • Is being forced upon all of us from every angle of our society.
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  • Now it's interesting, in the period we were dealing with, the
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  • Virus, it's interesting that the one freedom that we lost first
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  • In that draconian moments of our history was the one that i would
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  • Have said is the, you know, least important.
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  • What would that be?
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  • It'd be the fourth freedom, the freedom to voluntarily get
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  • Together as groups, as family.
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  • Right?
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  • That's the fourth freedom, we have the freedom to do that.
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  • That freedom was taken away, and in the process, when that was
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  • Taken away, the right of rightful assembly, all the other
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  • Freedoms, the other three were tranq'ed.
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  • We had freedom of religion, but when that was taken away, we had
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  • Freedom from religion, and then we had freedom from religion.
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  • And then we had freedom of speech, now we had freedom from
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  • Speech, and that last one was taken away.
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  • And now we had freedom of the press, we had freedom from
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  • The press.
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  • Amazing, isn't it, how quickly those, we would say, indelible
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  • Freedoms are confused and they are lost?
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  • The freedom of religion, how many countries of the world you
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  • Have genuine freedom of religion?
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  • Would you like to count them on one hand, maybe, if you can find
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  • Them, where people can express their religious faith in freedom
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  • And in exercise of that anytime, anywhere.
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  • That is freedom, that is a rare thing on the planet, ladies
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  • And gentlemen.
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  • You say, "well," let me give you an illustration.
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  • "well, israel has freedom of religion."
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  • No, they do not.
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  • We can go there in our own little groups and express
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  • Religion, but you go there and try to have a crusade in any
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  • Facility in israel, when you call people to jesus christ, i'm
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  • Telling you, you'll be put in jail.
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  • And you would think israel, of all places, would have freedom
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  • Of religion, let alone china, russia, et cetera, et cetera,
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  • Let along the muslim countries, right?
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  • Freedom of religion is a precious thing.
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  • And i can tell you, in most countries, if what i have been
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  • Trying to say in a biblical context for the last four or
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  • Five weeks, it would've been called hate speech, hate speech,
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  • And i would be arrested or put down, and maybe all of us would
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  • Be in jeopardy.
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  • And then we'd discover who stands up and who doesn't,
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  • Wouldn't we?
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  • In about a skinny new york minute.
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  • Religion.
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  • Freedom of speech, canceled.
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  • You say, "well, what about in australia?
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  • You know, that's sort of a western country, you know,
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  • In australia."
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  • This past week in australia, a man was elected to be what we
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  • Would call the commissioner of australian football.
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  • And he was elected, and the first day he was in office he
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  • Was fired because they discovered he was a member of a
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  • Church who do not believe in killing a baby in the mother's
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  • Womb, and they fired him.
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  • He served for one day, like he'd be the commissioner in our place
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  • Of the nfl because he was an evangelical christian.
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  • Bang, you're thrown out, you're canceled.
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  • Huh.
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  • Freedom of press, that's a joke, isn't it?
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  • That's a joke.
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  • You say, "well, the press can say what they want to say."
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  • You know, i had sons, and we'd give them more and more leeway
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  • As they matured and grow up, we'd give them greater and
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  • Greater freedom.
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  • Did we not?
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  • All parents do that, but if they went back against that freedom,
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  • We would have to restrain them.
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  • Ed, the first time he went out in the car on a date, his
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  • Driver's license said he had to be home by sundown.
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  • It got dark, and daddy took off looking for him.
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  • By the way, there's no more frightening moments in the life
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  • Of a parent when of your kids go off with a car for the
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  • First time.
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  • Right, ladies and gentlemen?
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  • Right?
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  • Oh yeah, yeah.
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  • He was coming in the road as i was going out, thank goodness.
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  • You think i restricted his freedom from that time on?
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  • I sure did.
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  • You see, we have, now, those in the press, they report on the
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  • Basis of their ideology, and not on the basis of what be factual,
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  • That's the freedom of the press today, that's postmodernism.
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  • Therefore, they have lost that freedom as far as we're
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  • Concerned, anybody who's modifiedly literate.
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  • So we lose these four freedoms, plus, in a woke
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  • Dominated community.
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  • Freedom.
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  • And then what about the word liberty?
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  • Freedom and liberty are usually employed as synonyms, are
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  • They not?
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  • They're synonyms, but they really are not.
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  • Freedom is the freedom to, you know, go that-a-way, jump down,
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  • Hit somebody.
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  • I mean, we're free moral agents, we make decisions.
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  • We do, that's freedom.
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  • But liberty is sort of inside of freedom, liberty puts guardrails
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  • On freedom, so you have rules and laws and civility and
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  • Culture, and so it puts that in there on freedom.
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  • That is what liberty is.
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  • "liberty and justice for all," a nation under god.
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  • But what's happened recently?
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  • This is a tragedy, and you have to think about it to understand
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  • It, but we had an illicit marriage that is becoming
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  • Devastating to us at this moment in history, science got married
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  • To politics.
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  • Whoo, science got married to politics.
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  • The temptation to do that has already occurred in a strategic
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  • Time in our history.
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  • I'm not an epidemiologist, of course, i'm not a climatologist,
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  • Obviously, and i can't speak ex cathedra in these fields, but
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  • I'm am sort of an amateur historian.
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  • And let's go back to 1970, and the big issue there was
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  • Global cooling.
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  • Does anybody remember that?
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  • How many of you are old enough to remember that?
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  • Man, we're gonna have a new ice age.
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  • Now they tried to sell this to the political world, and some
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  • Reason they didn't buy it.
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  • This is before the marriage took place.
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  • Ice age is coming.
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  • Look at the scientists, the climatologists who saw this and
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  • Shouted this out.
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  • Man, this is irrefutable history.
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  • But something happened, the catastrophic cooling morphed
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  • Into catastrophic warming.
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  • Hold onto the word catastrophic.
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  • You see, it has to be catastrophic in order to scare
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  • The bejesus out of everybody and so we can get more control of
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  • We, the people.
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  • See, a lot of people forget we got four branches of government,
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  • The legislative, the judicial, the executives, but the fourth
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  • Branch is stronger than all three, that's we, the people,
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  • Ladies and gentlemen, that's we, the people.
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  • Now, i'll say it, i'm not an authority, but i wanna read what
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  • A very fine scholarly man has written, and i've paraphrased it
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  • A little bit, so it's not exclusively his, part of it
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  • Is mine.
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  • Michael knowles, in his book entitled, "speechless."
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  • Perhaps warmer weather threatens civilization, perhaps it does
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  • Not, maybe the coronavirus poses an unprecedented threat on human
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  • Life, maybe not.
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  • In any event, dr. dictator, i.e. the napoleonic dr. fauci,
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  • Expects technocrats have no right to demand that we
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  • Acquiesce to their every whim.
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  • A free people may welcome the advice of specialists, and we
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  • Do, but we must also consider other non-scientific factors,
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  • Remember the marriage between science and politics?
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  • Including the effects of a given policy on the economy, national
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  • Security, popular culture, civil rights, social relations,
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  • Welfare of our children, mental health, and other facets in
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  • Our republic.
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  • If climate change really would destroy the world by 2031,
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  • As a.o.c. claims, science remains a servant of our nation
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  • Of the world.
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  • In a free republic the people must set the nation's course.
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  • A man far more scholarly than most of us, certainly myself,
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  • Gave us a very wise moment.
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  • You see, we don't submit to draconian efforts when those
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  • We've elected to be our servants becomes our lord and our
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  • Masters, and that is always derogatory and deadly to a free
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  • People, when politicians marry science.
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  • Now, we are a blessed nation.
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  • Is that true?
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  • Well, how did god bless us?
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  • Why did god bless us?
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  • Have we moved away from that blessing?
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  • Is it gone?
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  • Is that blessing coming back?
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  • Let me tell you how i think and why we have been blessed.
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  • I think that blessing is available to every nation.
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  • Whoa, wait a minute.
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  • Yeah.
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  • Well, what about israel?
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  • I think israel, in that day and age, responded to god in setting
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  • Up a biblical basis that he gave to them through the 10
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  • Commandments and through their salvation history with the
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  • Coming of jesus christ.
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  • I think that's why god uniquely blessed and used israel, because
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  • Israel, at that time, responded to his revelation best that they
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  • Could with the 10 commandments and the covenants that
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  • Were placed.
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  • That's why i think god blessed israel, and he didn't just
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  • Decide to put pixie dust on them.
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  • Let me see how that worked.
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  • Look at jeremiah chapter number 29.
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  • God speaking, he says, "for i know your plans," united states,
  • 00:17:49.458 --> 00:17:54.630
  • Any nation, "'that i have for you,' declares the lord, 'plans
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  • For welfare and not for calamity, to give you a future
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  • And a hope.
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  • Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and i will
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  • Listen to you.
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  • And you will seek me,'" says the lord, "'and find me when you
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  • Search for me with all your heart.
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  • I will be found by you,' declares the lord, 'and i will
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  • Restore your fortunes and will gather you from all the nations
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  • And from all the places where i have driven you, declares the
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  • Lord,' 'and i will bring you back to the place from where i
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  • Sent you into exile.'"
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  • Did you get that?
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  • That is such a clear teaching all the way through god's word.
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  • God gives provision and then we have to respond to that
  • 00:18:40.976 --> 00:18:47.749
  • Provision, we have to step up and apprehend that provision,
  • 00:18:47.749 --> 00:18:52.187
  • Just like salvation.
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  • God has provided for us to know god in jesus christ, right?
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  • Jesus died on the cross, god man, for your sin and my sin,
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  • And there is a provision for us to receive him, and know him,
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  • And have life now and forever.
  • 00:19:05.734 --> 00:19:07.736
  • And also, we have to accept, we have to respond to that.
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  • This is the way with blessings, he's provided a provision, and
  • 00:19:12.774 --> 00:19:18.180
  • America was founded on his basic doctrines, with judeo-christian
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  • Provisions, that's found in all of our foundational documents.
  • 00:19:23.051 --> 00:19:26.255
  • Are they not?
  • 00:19:26.255 --> 00:19:27.589
  • The bible is the source of those.
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  • And because of that, he has blessed us as a people.
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  • But when we withdraw from those blessings and those foundations
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  • That he's given us, what has he given us in foundation?
  • 00:19:39.735 --> 00:19:42.537
  • We've already looked at that, he gave his family, he gave us
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  • Government, he gave us the church.
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  • And when we, as christians, exercise freedom within those
  • 00:19:47.676 --> 00:19:51.246
  • Three basic, fundamental, god-given foundations, then god
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  • Will bless us and continue to bless us.
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  • But when those foundations are broken and cracked and confused
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  • And destroyed, as the woke people would have them to be,
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  • The liberty and the justice, a nation unto god, he withdraws
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  • His hand from us just like he did in history to israel all the
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  • Way through those decades.
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  • We are blessed to be a blessing, and we are blessed because god
  • 00:20:20.108 --> 00:20:23.745
  • Has given us a provision, an opportunity, an openness, and we
  • 00:20:23.745 --> 00:20:29.818
  • Have to accept and accommodate ourselves, and receive those
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  • Provisions which are fundamental to us on the basic doctrines of
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  • The united states of america.
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  • Do you get what a blessing is?
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  • Do we understand what a blessing is?
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  • On this basis, on this basis god can bless america.
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  • There was a family that lived in siberia, and the russians came,
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  • In their anti-semitism they burned the house of this jewish
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  • Family down and the father escaped with the children.
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  • Made it all this way to america, lived on the east side of
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  • New york.
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  • When this young boy came over as a baby he was nine years old,
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  • His name was israel beilin.
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  • His father died, he was an orphan at nine.
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  • Somehow he made it by selling papers on the streets of new
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  • York, and he would go in bars and he saw those old beat up
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  • Pianos, and he began to play on those pianos.
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  • He had a natural gift for music and everybody liked him.
  • 00:21:46.461 --> 00:21:51.400
  • Man, he would play and they would give donations, and
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  • Finally he began to write music that sorta fit the mood of the
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  • Day and they would sing that song.
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  • They would looked forward to israel, "is he coming in and
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  • Playing those songs?"
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  • And finally, he went on and he began to write sheet music.
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  • And he went to germany in 1938, saw what was happening with
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  • Hitler there.
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  • He had served in the military previously himself.
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  • And he came back home to america, and he was disturbed as
  • 00:22:22.697 --> 00:22:25.734
  • He saw a demonic element arising in europe, and he, being thrown
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  • Out with his family, russia, when he was just a child.
  • 00:22:30.806 --> 00:22:34.142
  • And he began to write more music and he wrote a piece of
  • 00:22:34.142 --> 00:22:38.113
  • Sheet music.
  • 00:22:38.113 --> 00:22:39.815
  • And they got his name confused, instead of israel beilin, they
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  • Put on it, "irving," who?
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  • "berlin," and he didn't correct it.
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  • And irving berlin, what a guy.
  • 00:22:53.595 --> 00:22:57.699
  • In 1938, kate smith had a radio show back when she was a
  • 00:22:57.699 --> 00:23:02.604
  • Beautiful, powerful voice, and she asked this man irving
  • 00:23:02.604 --> 00:23:08.543
  • Berlin, what did he write?
  • 00:23:08.543 --> 00:23:09.878
  • "white christmas," "no business like show business."
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  • But she asked him to write her a song, and he did.
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  • He went and got an old trunk that he'd brought back when he
  • 00:23:19.955 --> 00:23:23.258
  • Was in the war, and he had written in that trunk a love
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  • Letter to america because he so appreciated america because he
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  • Came out of russia, he had suffered, his family had
  • 00:23:31.099 --> 00:23:33.768
  • Been killed.
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  • In this little love letter he wrote while he was in the army,
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  • And he said he'd never did use it or read it, it just stayed in
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  • That old trunk because he said it was so mushy.
  • 00:23:41.910 --> 00:23:46.147
  • But when kate smith asked him to write something for her radio
  • 00:23:46.147 --> 00:23:49.284
  • Show he took that old, old mushy thing there and he put music to
  • 00:23:49.284 --> 00:23:55.924
  • The words, and that's where we get that prayer,
  • 00:23:55.924 --> 00:24:03.365
  • Put to music, "god bless america."
  • 00:24:03.365 --> 00:24:11.139
  • Would you say it after me?
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  • "god bless america, land that i love.
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  • Stand beside her, and guide her, through the night
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  • With the light from above.
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  • From the mountains to the prairie, to the ocean, white
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  • With foam, god bless america, our home, sweet home."
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  • Pastor ed: everybody in the world is hungry for something
  • 00:24:44.639 --> 00:24:46.942
  • That gives them assurance about the future and comfort about
  • 00:24:46.942 --> 00:24:50.979
  • What we are facing right today.
  • 00:24:50.979 --> 00:24:54.282
  • What all of us are looking for can only be found in god's word.
  • 00:24:54.282 --> 00:24:59.554
  • That's why now's the time to do all we can to share the proven
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  • Truth of scripture with as many people as possible.
  • 00:25:04.693 --> 00:25:09.264
  • And so, with a gift today which will be worth double thanks
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  • To a special matching grant, we can help reach millions
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  • Through the broadcast and resources of "the winning walk,"
  • 00:25:17.005 --> 00:25:21.409
  • And it's a winning walk, as you know, with jesus christ.
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  • I'm excited about today, i'm excited about tomorrow,
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  • And thank you, through your contributions, through your
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  • Prayers, we scatter seeds of god's truth everywhere
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  • And lives are changed.
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  • Congratulations, thank you for being a part
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  • Of "the winning walk" family.
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  • Pastor ed: when i was growing up, almost without exception,
  • 00:25:44.032 --> 00:25:47.702
  • Every time i left my home my mother would say, "edwin,
  • 00:25:47.702 --> 00:25:51.673
  • Remember who you are."
  • 00:25:51.673 --> 00:25:54.209
  • I would turn around and grin or smile or throw my hands back,
  • 00:25:54.209 --> 00:25:58.813
  • Keep moving, but i knew exactly what she was talking about.
  • 00:25:58.813 --> 00:26:03.218
  • "at the party, remember who you are.
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  • As you go out with that date, remember who you are.
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  • As you take that trip and you get away from people that really
  • 00:26:09.391 --> 00:26:12.894
  • Don't know you, remember who you are, remember what you have
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  • Learned, remember what you have been taught, what your name
  • 00:26:17.332 --> 00:26:22.103
  • Means, principles you have seen your dad and i live out
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  • Before you."
  • 00:26:26.141 --> 00:26:27.475
  • That's what my parents were saying.
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  • "edwin, remember who you are."
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  • To this day, i have not forgotten that reminder, and you
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  • Shouldn't either.
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  • Sometimes i have remembered the reminder but out in the throes
  • 00:26:39.354 --> 00:26:43.625
  • Of life i did not remember who i was in christ.
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  • We need to always keep that in the frontal part of our minds.
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  • Remember who you are, and more importantly, remember who you
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  • Belong to.
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  • As a son or a daughter of god in jesus christ, live through him
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  • And for him, and never forget you are his.
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  • That's who you are and that's who i am.
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  • ♪♪♪
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