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Ed Young - Created Equal

July 15, 2025 | S25 E169 | 29:0

Ed Young - Created Equal
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 - Created Equal | July 15, 2025
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  • Pastor ed young: yesterday i went back and i looked at 400
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  • Years of life in america for the african-american who was brought
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  • Over here as slaves.
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  • You know, i sort of knew all that, but i didn't have any
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  • Concept of the length of the bigotry, the prejudice,
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  • The inhumane way americans treated fellow
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  • Human beings made in the image of god.
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  • Because if you know your history, the slaves first came
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  • Over here in 1619, and i do not buy the 1619 phony history,
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  • That's not what i'm saying, but they came with the settlement of
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  • Jamestown, the massachusetts bay company, and they came primarily
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  • For profit and for gold.
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  • A little later we know about plymouth rock when pilgrims came
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  • Because they loved jesus and they wanted to worship freely
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  • And independently in a new land.
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  • So, a totally different ballgame.
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  • But in jamestown, the secular invasion of our country, they
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  • Brought with them slaves, first slavery in our history.
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  • And then we know from that moment, listen, roughly 250
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  • Years, just hold onto that number, 250 years we treated
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  • Fellow human beings made in the image of god as if they were
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  • Animals and sometime worse than we treat our own animals.
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  • That's the truth.
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  • The constitution was written by wealthy men, intelligent men,
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  • Supposedly god-fearing men, but eight out of the first 12
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  • Presidents of the united states were slave owners.
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  • They were slave owners.
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  • Now, you can built all kinds of little anomalies how people
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  • Treated their slaves like family and all that, but it is
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  • Brutality and it is evil any way you look at it.
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  • And now we see dr. king came, and through prayer he decided to
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  • Bring about a revolution different from any other
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  • Revolutions, except maybe when mahatma gandhi through pacifism
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  • Liberated india from the british empire through non-violence.
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  • Dr. king took that path.
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  • It was dangerous, it was deadly, and he began through those years
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  • To do things, to say things, always in a biblical
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  • Christian context.
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  • Don't miss that.
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  • I submit to you that along with billy graham, maybe
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  • Internationally winston churchill, dr. martin luther
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  • King was the most influential individual in the 20th century
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  • By far.
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  • He saved america.
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  • He preached the gospel.
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  • He was indeed a great man.
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  • Martin luther king speaking at southern methodist university
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  • Two years before his assassination, 1966, he said, "a
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  • Doctrine of black supremacy is just as dangerous as a doctrine
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  • Of white supremacy.
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  • God is not interested in freedom of a black man, a brown man, or
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  • A yellow man, god is interested in the freedom of the whole
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  • Human race, the creation of a society where every man will
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  • Respect the dignity and worth of personality," dr. king, couple
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  • Of years before assassination at smu.
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  • So i submit to you that we're proud to be american, i'm proud
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  • To be american, but we can't overlook this disastrous
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  • History at the same time, all important.
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  • The color of your face says all of those in the woke agenda.
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  • What does that mean?
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  • That means according to those in the left, left part of our
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  • United states, that if you were born black or some other color,
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  • That defines who you are, and you are, listen to me carefully,
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  • Automatically a racist by being white.
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  • It doesn't matter what you've done, what you believe, where
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  • You've been, you are a racist by virtue of your birth, and more
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  • Than that, and this is hard to believe, there's not a thing in
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  • The world you can ever do to repent and to convince anybody
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  • Anywhere because you're white that you're not a racist.
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  • There's no redemption.
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  • You could be anti-racist, but you'll never reach the goal
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  • Until you're still categorized like that.
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  • A leader of black lives matter said, a matter of public record,
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  • Anyone who waves an american flag by definition, whomever you
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  • Are, you are racist.
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  • Everything is tragically defined by racism.
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  • How different that is from dr. martin luther king's
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  • Understanding of the racial challenges we had in america
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  • Then, and we've progressed a great deal, but we still have
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  • Some ways to go, but how far that we have come.
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  • You see, he would tell us, as we know, the color of your face
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  • Doesn't determine your character and who you are, and really,
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  • You'll discover doesn't say much about you and me.
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  • Did you know that all of our physical assets, ears, nose,
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  • Mouth, body, make up 0.012 of who we are?
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  • Is that any big deal about you or about me?
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  • That color is all important of your skin?
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  • Go to korea, fly over korea, and i am told that you see north
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  • Korea is totally dark at night.
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  • Go at night, it's almost totally dark, almost no light in all of
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  • North korea.
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  • Go to south korea, and just lights everywhere.
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  • South korea is progressive, they're fluent, there's freedom,
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  • And arguably the most christian nation on the earth.
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  • Go to north korea, what did you find?
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  • The very opposite.
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  • You find the dictatorial leadership of a godless family.
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  • You find right is determined by might.
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  • You define a military enemy when people are starving.
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  • Education is practically non-existent, and they live
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  • Almost as slaves in north korea.
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  • You say, "well, the difference is the color of their skin."
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  • The difference is not the color of their skin, the difference is
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  • The lord jesus christ.
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  • Woke history would have everything defined by the color
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  • Of your face, human history is defined by grace.
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  • The name martin luther king, junior, who was martin luther?
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  • Martin luther was a revolutionary who said we're not
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  • Saved by good works, and i'm better than you, and i do more
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  • Than you, and god's gonna rank us up there, he said from the
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  • Passage of ephesians 3 and many other places, your salvation, my
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  • Salvation, is based on grace by faith in jesus christ, and that
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  • Is the gospel that dr. king preached through out his life.
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  • He said in a sermon shortly before he died that he hoped
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  • That people would know one thing about him, he genuinely
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  • Loved everybody.
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  • There's only one race, ladies and gentlemen.
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  • In the beginning, god created man and woman.
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  • By the way, there's only two genders, just as a side note.
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  • God created man and woman in his image.
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  • We are all heirs and part of the family of god, and a little more
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  • Melanin in your face, or a little less melanin in somebody
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  • Else's face, we're all part of one human race, and that's the
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  • Only race that we have.
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  • Race is a construct of humanity.
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  • It is sinful by nature.
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  • You won't find anything in the bible that has to do with
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  • Separating people by the color of their skin.
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  • You can't find it.
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  • Ethnicity, background, heritage, family, it's not there.
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  • We're one race, folks.
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  • Color makes no difference to god, and more and more, it
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  • Should make zero difference to anybody who follows the lord
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  • Jesus christ.
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  • Let me show you something.
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  • You say, "well, that's just that man's opinion."
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  • Let me get a higher opinion we find here in god's word.
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  • Galatians chapter number 3 and there are many passages along
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  • This line, "so in christ jesus, you are all children of god
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  • Through faith.
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  • For all of you who were baptized into christ have clothed
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  • Themselves with christ.
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  • There is neither jew nor gentile, neither slave nor free,
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  • Nor is there male and female, for you are all one in christ.
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  • And if you belong to christ, then you are abraham's seed and
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  • Heirs according to the promise of the old and the
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  • New testament."
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  • In the church, i've talked to people who were in the whole
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  • Woke agenda, and they talk about, "well, this is that
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  • Division, this is that division, this is that division.
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  • We have this, and there is no forgiveness because you happen
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  • To be white," and i said in the body of christ, there is no
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  • Respecter of persons if we are all in christ.
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  • The color of your skin doesn't mean zip.
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  • Understand that it is biblical truth, therefore we don't play
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  • All of these games that everybody would have us play.
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  • Say we're one in christ and i don't even believe race is a
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  • Reality, it's a matter of the melanin in your face.
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  • Now, what do we do at this moment in history?
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  • We've had 400 years, the first slaves came.
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  • The last ten years at least, it's hard to put a timeline
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  • Here, america has come a long, long way.
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  • We're not there, i think that white supremacist in those kkk,
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  • Ignorant, godless, evil individuals are just about out
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  • Of business, thank god for that.
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  • That's the genius of america, 'cause i think 90% of our
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  • Nation, i don't know exactly, you can debate that, understands
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  • That god is no respecter of persons, and more and more,
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  • There has been progress, and progress in all of these areas,
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  • And i attribute that to a lot of factors.
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  • Dr. king said when he was touring america, he would go to
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  • Cities and he'd see churches with steeples up, and he said in
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  • Light of the suffering, the jim crow laws, pushback on voting,
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  • The suffering his people were still going through there in the
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  • '60s, he said i wonder what kind of pastor that is and what kind
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  • Of worshipers of god you find there.
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  • When they allow people made in the image of god still to be put
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  • Down, crushed out, questioned.
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  • Oh yeah, there's an american dream in our declaration of
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  • Independence, in our constitution and our bylaws, but
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  • That american dream was not written for the african-american
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  • Who was here as a slave.
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  • Oh no, but dr. king, he did not want to destroy america.
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  • Do you know what he said?
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  • He said all i want we as americans to do is to live up to
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  • The high calling and the principles of our basic
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  • Documents, even though our forefathers who had written them
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  • Did not live up to them themselves.
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  • Did you get it?
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  • Very, very important.
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  • So, dr. king was a revolutionary, godly individual.
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  • He spoke truth into power, no respecter of persons, not
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  • Perfect, but my goodness, what a brilliant, gifted person he was.
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  • When he died, i preached his sermon to western north carolina
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  • Through radio.
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  • There in a church that i pastored that was basically not
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  • Very receptive to african-american, way up there
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  • In the mountains of north carolina.
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  • When i went to be pastor of the first baptist church at
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  • Columbia, south carolina, where i was before i came here, i
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  • Didn't preach a trial sermon.
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  • Traditionally, a perspective candidate would stand up and
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  • Preach a sermon, everybody's got one or two good sermons, and
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  • They said, "oh, we want him to be our pastor," but i don't
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  • Do that.
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  • They asked me to preach, and i quoted john 3:16 and walked out,
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  • Just like i did here.
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  • I said if they don't get that, they will not get me.
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  • That's all i did.
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  • I did that in colombia.
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  • But the first deacon's meeting i went to in the church where the
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  • Cessation convention was held, oh yeah, this is where the
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  • South [inaudible]
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  • Right in that building, right where i preached, had the slave
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  • Backers around it, and when i went there, they had boarded the
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  • Front doors of the church because they would not let
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  • Someone who didn't have the right color of skin enter the
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  • Church premises.
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  • Yes, right downtown in colombia.
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  • We had two african-american colleges there, and some were
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  • Tryin' to get in.
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  • Before i got there, they didn't let 'em in, and the rumor was
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  • After they'd been without a pastor a couple of years, they
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  • Said who are they looking for to preach there?
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  • They said they're looking for a 28-year-old retired confederate
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  • General, but my first deacon meeting, never having preached,
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  • Just having been voted, they sat down at a table like this, about
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  • 25 men, one of the deacons worked for the governor of the
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  • State of south carolina at that moment.
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  • So we got in there, and they said here's our new pastor, ed
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  • Young, and so i was seated there, i said gentlemen, let me
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  • Communicate to you as clearly as i can who i am, and i told them
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  • As pastor of this church, if you retain me as pastor, i'd just
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  • Been voted in the sunday before, this church would be no
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  • Respecter of persons, and we'll take anybody, any background,
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  • Any color of skin into the family of god through jesus
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  • Christ, and there'll be no limitation to that.
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  • And i said now i want to know where you stand, gentlemen, if
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  • I'm going to be your pastor.
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  • If you believe what i believe, that god is no respecter of
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  • Persons, and we're gonna welcome and rejoice with anybody who
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  • Comes and worships in this house of god, if you follow me with
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  • That, or you wanna keep your bigotry and your prejudice that
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  • This church has been known for, and i let them vote.
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  • I would say 65% voted with me, a handful did not vote,
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  • And the others voted to keep the church closed.
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  • Among those who did not vote was the governor of the state.
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  • [laughing]
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  • Two years later, after he'd been under some gospel preaching, he
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  • Made the nominating speech at the democratic convention for
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  • John f. kennedy.
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  • So, god opened up some eyes, i hope, and when i left, they
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  • Appointed a committee to find a successor, and on that committee
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  • Was an african-american man.
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  • I was speaking in richmond, virginia at a revival, had a
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  • Wonderful musician, a singer with me, and we were staying in
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  • A hotel there in downtown richmond, and every night i
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  • Would go through there, and we'd go through the lobby, and i
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  • Discovered that mrs. king was there at the same time, and this
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  • Musician knew her and knew martin luther friendly, as
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  • Friends through the years, and so i met her and we had a chance
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  • To visit there in the lobby for several nights.
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  • Let me tell you something.
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  • She was as fine and as brilliant i would say, or more so even
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  • Than her husband.
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  • She was a delightful lady.
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  • So, i have sort of an ongoing relationship, an admiration for
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  • What that christian man did, because what martin luther king
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  • Advocated in bringing harmony and reconciliation to all people
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  • Is the total opposite of what the woke people are seeking to
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  • Do for all people.
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  • One is godly and one is ungodly.
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  • One is biblical and one is not biblical.
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  • Let me assure you of that, because without grace we're
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  • Totally out of business.
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  • So, with that being said i'm going to do something with great
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  • Reticence, but i think it needs to be restated.
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  • One of the greatest orations, lincoln's "gettysburg address,"
  • 00:19:46.275 --> 00:19:52.447
  • Two or three others would be martin luther king's "i had a
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  • Dream" speech there in the washington mall, maybe a million
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  • People present, millions of people heard it around the
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  • World, and martin luther king dreamed of a certain kind
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  • Of america.
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  • I think we were getting there not fast enough, 350 years of
  • 00:20:11.833 --> 00:20:17.439
  • Bigotry by leadership across the board is too much, folks.
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  • We can't deny that.
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  • We can't run from that, but we were getting there, and we were
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  • Getting there because a lot of churches, christians, that's how
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  • Slavery got eliminated.
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  • In england it was wilberforce, and here it was "uncle
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  • Tom's cabin."
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  • In here it was henry ward beecher and others who stood
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  • Against the evil and deadliness of racism.
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  • Oh, yes, it was through the church when people awakened to
  • 00:20:48.270 --> 00:20:52.407
  • See that in the bible we are one in jesus christ, period, selah.
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  • When they began to preach that and see that, that's where
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  • Racism was eliminated and still being healed.
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  • But thank god there's only one kind of slave we want to be, and
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  • That's a slave to the lord jesus christ, where everybody
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  • Is welcome.
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  • With great reticence.
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  • I want to be bold enough to read and remind us
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  • Of what dr. king did on that historic day.
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  • He said, "i have a dream that one day every valley will be
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  • Exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough
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  • Places will be made plain, the crooked places will be made
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  • Straight, and the glory of the lord shall be revealed, and all
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  • Flesh shall see it together."
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  • He said this is our hope.
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  • This is the faith that i go back to the south with.
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  • "with this faith, we'll be able to hue out of the mountain of
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  • Despair a stone of hope.
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  • With this faith, we'll be able to transform the jangling
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  • Discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony
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  • Of brotherhood.
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  • With this faith," said dr. king, "we'll be able to work together,
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  • To pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail
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  • Together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that
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  • We'll be free one day.
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  • This will be the day when all god's children will be able to
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  • Sing with new meaning, 'my country 'tis of thee, sweet land
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  • Of liberty, of thee i sing.
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  • Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from
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  • Every mountainside, let freedom ring.'"
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  • And he continued and he said, "and if america is to be a great
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  • Nation, this must become true."
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  • And so, let freedom ring.
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  • From the prodigious hilltops of new hampshire, let freedom ring.
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  • From the mighty mountains of new york, let freedom ring.
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  • From the heightening alleghenies of pennsylvania, let
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  • Freedom ring.
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  • Let freedom ring from the snow-capped.
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  • Rockies of colorado.
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  • Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of california.
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  • But not only that, let freedom ring from stone
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  • Mountain, georgia.
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  • Let freedom ring from lookout mountain of tennessee.
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  • Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of mississippi, and
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  • From every mountaintop, let freedom ring.
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  • And he said and when this happens, when we allow freedom
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  • To ring, when it rings from every village, and every hamlet,
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  • From every state, and every city, we will be able to speed
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  • Up that day when all of god's children, black men, and white
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  • Men, jews and gentiles, protestants and catholics, will
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  • Be able to join hands and we'll sing the words of that old
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  • Spiritual, "free at last, free at last, thank god almighty, we
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  • Are free at last."
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  • [congregation applauding]
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  • Pastor ed: everybody in the world is hungry for something
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  • That gives them assurance about the future and comfort about
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  • What we are facing right today.
  • 00:24:58.720 --> 00:25:02.390
  • What all of us are looking for can only be found in god's word.
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  • 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.
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  • And so, with a gift today which will be worth double
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  • Thanks to a special matching grant, we can help reach
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  • Millions through the broadcast and resources of "the winning
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  • Walk," 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
  • 00:25:36.524 --> 00:25:39.494
  • 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: ladies and gentlemen, god is no respecter of persons.
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  • He does not play favorites.
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  • He says that all have sinned and fall short of the glory of god.
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  • Let me tell you something.
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  • Before we can become a christian, before we receive the
  • 00:26:04.019 --> 00:26:06.588
  • Good news of the gospel of salvation, and new life, and
  • 00:26:06.588 --> 00:26:09.724
  • Forgiveness, there has to be bad news.
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  • We have to realize that we are lost without god, and our sin
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  • And our garbage will tear us down and beat us up, now
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  • And forever.
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  • And that's why the gospel is amazing, good news.
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  • We see who we are and we see what we're not, and then god
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  • Comes and says john 3:16, for that whosoever believes in jesus
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  • And receives him not only as savior but as lord, commander
  • 00:26:35.750 --> 00:26:39.688
  • And chief of your life, of my life, then we have eternal life,
  • 00:26:39.688 --> 00:26:44.459
  • Now and forever.
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  • We would be privileged and love to pray with you and share with
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  • You how you can become in the family of god, a member of the
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  • Family of god.
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  • What a family.
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  • What a heritage. what a reality.
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  • Thank you for watching, and i'll look forward to our time
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  • Together next week on another exciting journey, an exciting
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  • Step on "the winning walk," led by the spirit with jesus christ.
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  • ♪♪♪
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