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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Deep Healing | July 30, 2025
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- Dr. ed young: dr. david peterson was pastor of the
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- Memorial drive presbyterian church in houston,
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- Texas for many years.
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- Dave tells a story that when he was in seminary,
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- He studied a man by the name of dr. frederick buechner and
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- Buechner is a well-known scholar,
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- Brilliant in what he writes, presbyterian in his theology.
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- And my friend dave said that he wanted to meet him,
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- And he knew that he had a home in florida and in one in maine,
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- And he decided that he would go whichever place that this famed
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- Theologian would meet with him.
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- And he wrote him a little note, "dear dr. buechner,
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- I would like to meet with you just a few minutes and pick
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- Your mind about life, et cetera.
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- And he just name the place and i'll be there."
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- And he got this letter back.
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- "dear reverend peterson, i have written down everything i wish
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- To disclose about myself in my autobiography,
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- Sincerely, frederick buechner."
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- Dave said, "well, that's it."
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- I heard him tell that story and i thought,
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- You know, i'm a lot like he was when i deal with god.
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- Are you like that? sure you are.
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- "god, if you would show me, if you'd just speak to me.
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- I've got a situation, lord, that's unique
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- And i want your insight.
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- Would you just come and have a little flash of lightning or at
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- Least with a still, small voice speak in my mind?
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- Lord, i want to do business with you.
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- I want to meet with you at your convenience
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- Because i want am answers."
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- And i think god would say to those of us who get to those
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- Points in life, "i have revealed to you,
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- I have disclosed to you all i have to say about myself in
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- My autobiography."
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- Genesis to revelation, matthew, mark, luke
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- And john, especially the autobiography of jesus tells us
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- All we need to know in any situation of life about the
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- Almighty, about the almighty.
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- So, the bible, you could say, is a story of salvation.
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- The big, fancy theological word is soteriology.
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- We're gonna study soteriology in our church.
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- It means we're studying the doctrine of salvation
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- And that's a giant doctrine.
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- It covers many facets of life.
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- We have boiled it down in the evangelical church to make it
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- Far too simplistic.
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- Recently, i read of the five categories of people who got
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- Onboard the ill-fated titanic.
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- There were some royalty.
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- There was political leaders, multimillionaires,
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- Those in first class, those in steerage,
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- Those in part of the ship's company.
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- They divided all the passenger of the titanic into four
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- Categories but when the titanic went to the bottom of the ocean,
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- When they ended up looking at them again,
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- They put them only in two categories,
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- Those that were saved and those that were lost.
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- Nothing else made any difference, did it?
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- Salvation, soteriology.
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- And we read in our study of the life of jesus,
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- God's--how would god have lived as he walked on this earth?
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- We see that's exactly how he lived.
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- We see what jesus did and what jesus said and we're walking
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- Through together the autobiography of god.
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- We've heard what happened when jesus
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- Taught in his home synagogue.
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- They ran him out. why did they run him out?
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- He spoke the truth. truth is a powerful thing.
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- It keeps nagging us everywhere we go.
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- Jesus stood and spoke the truth. they wanted tradition.
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- They wanted ritual.
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- They wanted the way it always had been done in that synagogue,
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- But jesus spoke the truth and they tried to throw him over a
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- Cliff, remember, just throw him over a cliff.
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- You see, biblical truth cuts me, it cuts you,
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- It is powerful, and it tell us and points us to salvation.
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- So, after jesus was speaking the truth,
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- Not with a nice little talk, but with a inspired word from god,
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- He began to perform miracles.
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- He moved his headquarters from nazareth,
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- His hometown, to capernaum and there he spoke at the synagogue.
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- He said they rejoiced.
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- They celebrated what he was saying.
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- And he performed miracles there, various kinds of miracles.
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- And then finally we come to the end of luke chapter number 4
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- And it says verse 42, "when day came,
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- Jesus left and went to a secluded place;
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- And the crowds were searching for him,
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- And came to him and tried to keep him from
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- Going away from them."
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- In other words, "we like this healing business."
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- He was healing this one, healing that one, healing that one.
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- Boy, they said, "just stay here. we like you.
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- You are a healer. just keep healing all of us."
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- But verse 43, "jesus said to them,
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- 'i must preach the kingdom of god to the other cities also,
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- For i was sent for this purpose.'"
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- And he kept on preaching.
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- In other words, we have to always remember the
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- Purpose of jesus.
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- His purpose was, what?
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- Was to bring the kingdom into reality.
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- The kingdom of god had come.
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- Where jesus christ is lord, and savior,
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- And king, wherever you find that,
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- There is the kingdom of god.
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- Jesus said, "i came to preach the kingdom."
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- How do we get in the kingdom? we have a new heart.
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- Confess sin, turn from sin, receive
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- Forgiveness, receive christ.
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- He takes our old heart and gives us a new heart and then we are
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- Saved, that's our word.
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- We are salvaged. we're in the family of god.
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- We're kingdom people, and then what happens?
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- Somebody asks you, "what does it mean to be a christian?"
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- Don't hear all these scrambled definitions.
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- "oh, i'm a christian."
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- No, no, no, you are a christian, i am a christian because we have
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- A personal relationship with jesus christ.
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- We have confessed sin, we've received him in our lives.
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- We've had that supernatural exchange,
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- My old heart, he gives me a new heart,
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- And therefore i am in the kingdom of god and what it means
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- To be a christian is that i am a citizen of the kingdom of god
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- Because i have a new heart and christ is in me
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- And christ is in you.
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- That makes us christian. we're in christ.
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- Christ is in us.
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- Then we are citizens of the kingdom.
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- And this is basic and fundamental.
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- And then jesus gives us in luke chapter 5,
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- What i call three big miracles, one after the other,
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- Bang, bang, bang.
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- And in these miracles, we discover that because we have
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- This personal relationship with jesus christ--remember,
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- That's what it means to be a christian.
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- Because we have this personal relationship with jesus christ,
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- We are saved and if we are saved,
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- The first miracle teaches us this,
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- Mark it down, we have now a way to see others as we had never
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- Seen them before, a way to see the world as we'd never seen it
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- Before, and we see ourselves in a different way.
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- Because we're in christ, we see ourselves a different way.
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- We see that in a miracle we've already looked at.
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- We're gonna just visit it briefly again.
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- That's the miracle of fish, sea of galilee,
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- Peter and his crew fishing all night,
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- Hadn't caught a thing.
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- Jesus said, "hey, cast the net out over there."
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- They say, "what does that carpenter know about fishing?"
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- They throw the net out, they have a catch of fish like they'd
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- Never seen before.
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- It was almost instant wealth.
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- Man, all of sudden, economic turn has turned back up again
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- For peter and his crew and look what happened,
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- You would think that peter would say,
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- But look at verse 7, "so they signaled to their partners in
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- The other boat for them to come and help them,"
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- They caught so many.
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- "and they came and filled both boats till
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- The boats began to sink."
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- You would think that peter would say to jesus,
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- "thank you, man, i've been wanting security.
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- I've been wanting this kind of wealth,
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- This kind of fishing skill i've imagined all my life.
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- Man, thank you, lord." but what did peter say?
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- Amazing.
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- "but when simon peter saw that, he fell down at jesus' feet,
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- And said, 'go away from the lord, for i'm a sinful man!'"
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- I want to tell you a little secret right up front.
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- You've gotta keep this in your mind.
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- It's like you have a melody then you have and obbligato.
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- Here's the melody, but there's this sub melody
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- That plays in it.
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- The sub melody of everything we're doing is everything
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- Happens at the feet of jesus.
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- Everything happens at the feet of jesus.
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- Just watch that, keep that a secret.
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- You'll see it as we walk through our scripture.
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- Everything happens at the feet of jesus.
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- Peter fell to the feet of jesus.
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- Here's this, economic windfall that's come.
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- He said, "lord, get away from me for i'm a sinful man."
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- Does that sound strange to you?
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- I read that over and over and i say,
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- Man, what a response, what a response that is.
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- You see, peter saw himself as he'd never seen himself before
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- And he had this low moment in his life.
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- "i'm a sinner." what does he tell jesus?
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- He said, "jesus, get away from me."
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- What a response. "jesus, get away from me.
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- I'm rotten to the core. get out of here.
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- I don't want to be--get away from me."
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- A low moment in his own view of himself, right?
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- But just skip a verse and the very next verse jesus says,
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- "pete, i want you to follow me and i'm gonna make you and give
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- You the ability to fish for men."
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- In other words, it's to change men alive, to catch men alive.
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- In other words, here's his low moment of his life and then
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- Jesus says, "i want you on my team and we're gonna be in the
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- Business of fishing in the world and see lives changed."
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- Low moment, high moment--is that distracting anybody?
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- And then we see how peter grew.
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- Two and a half years ahead, remember peter denied jesus
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- There in the trial, three times cursed?
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- "i don't know the man, i'm not a galilean,
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- I just picked up this accent.
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- No, i'm not from galilee. i don't know this jesus."
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- As he was being taken off to be crucified.
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- Now, the resurrected lord john 21, chapter
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- 21 we see peter's back fishing, all confused.
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- And he's not watching any fish and somebody on shore says,
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- "if you throw your net out on the other side,
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- You'll catch fish."
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- And they threw their net out, another giant catch of fish.
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- And john, the apostle john, whispered to peter and said,
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- "that's the lord."
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- And what did peter do?
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- Jumped in the sea of galilee and swam to shore to get to jesus as
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- Fast as he could.
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- Has he matured?
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- That's the biggest sin you think you could commit to deny the
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- Lord in the moment you need him the most,
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- And curse him, and run away from him.
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- And now he runs to him and swims to him for all he's worth.
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- Before he'd run away from him two and a half years before.
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- You see when that happened, that's spiritual maturity until
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- We respond instinctively to jesus.
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- See the difference? he didn't think about it.
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- There's jesus, bam, in the water, cold water, bam, bam.
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- I'm getting in as quick as i can.
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- Two and a half years before, same water,
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- Same place catch a fish, "lord, get away from me."
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- You see how now spontaneously peter runs to jesus because he
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- Saw himself in a different way, as a christ follower.
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- You see, he understood grace forgiveness.
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- He understood that jesus loved him without any reservation.
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- He didn't get that two and a half years before
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- The big catch of fish.
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- He got it now.
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- We need to be and grow in christ.
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- You begin to respond instinctively.
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- It's just what you do.
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- It's like somebody puts your knee and--you respond.
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- That's what peter did. he jumped in.
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- Before, "get away from me." now, "hey, i'm getting to you."
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- We see ourselves differently when we
- 00:14:11.206 --> 00:14:13.442
- Have relationship with jesus christ.
- 00:14:13.442 --> 00:14:15.110
- And then the second big miracle, we see others differently when
- 00:14:15.110 --> 00:14:19.882
- We have a relationship with jesus.
- 00:14:19.882 --> 00:14:21.350
- Look at it, verse number 12, still luke 5,
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- "and when he was in one of the cities,
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- Behold, there was a man covered with leprosy,"
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- Just covered with leprosy.
- 00:14:31.727 --> 00:14:33.696
- "and when he saw jesus, he fell on his face--"
- 00:14:33.696 --> 00:14:37.199
- Y'all remember that? peter fell on his face.
- 00:14:37.199 --> 00:14:42.304
- The leper fell on his face. keep that in mind.
- 00:14:42.304 --> 00:14:45.574
- "and implored him, saying, 'lord,
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- If you are willing, you can make me clean.'
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- And he stretched out his hand and touched him, the leper,
- 00:14:50.846 --> 00:14:55.317
- Saying, 'i am willing; be cleansed.'
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- And immediately the leprosy left him.
- 00:14:58.454 --> 00:15:00.689
- And jesus ordered him to tell no one,
- 00:15:00.689 --> 00:15:03.192
- 'but go and show yourself to the priest and make an offering for
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- Your cleansing, just as moses commanded,
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- As a testimony to them.'"
- 00:15:10.766 --> 00:15:14.269
- And what's our point?
- 00:15:14.269 --> 00:15:16.772
- When we meet jesus, we not only see ourselves
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- A different way, as peter did.
- 00:15:21.143 --> 00:15:23.212
- Instead of saying, "get away from me," he ran to him when
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- He was a sinner.
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- Now we see others differently.
- 00:15:26.949 --> 00:15:29.551
- Leprosy was sort of the ebola of the 1st century.
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- It was looked upon as being highly contagious and leprosy
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- Was a broad title for a lot of kind of skin
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- Diseases in that day.
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- And so, once you were pronounced to be a leper,
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- You were thrown out of your family,
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- Thrown out of the synagogue, thrown out of the community
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- Because leprosy was a symbol of gross sin.
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- And as a leper, you had to carry little bells around with you and
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- Wherever you'd go you'd have to say,
- 00:16:00.716 --> 00:16:02.584
- "unclean--unclean."
- 00:16:02.584 --> 00:16:06.121
- And i'll tell you, people got away from you.
- 00:16:06.121 --> 00:16:09.058
- You could be sure of that.
- 00:16:09.058 --> 00:16:10.392
- You're going around saying, "ebola, ebola--"
- 00:16:10.392 --> 00:16:17.933
- In fact, the jews had a rule that you had to be
- 00:16:17.933 --> 00:16:21.870
- Two-and-a-half football fields away from a leper when the
- 00:16:21.870 --> 00:16:26.408
- Wind was blowing upstream.
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- From the leper to you, you had to stay two-and-a-half footballs
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- Fields away, the leper did.
- 00:16:32.047 --> 00:16:33.482
- If blowing the other way, you could stay only 30 yards away.
- 00:16:33.482 --> 00:16:35.984
- So, they were always checking the windage,
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- Those lepers, to see which way, how far they had to stay away
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- From people because they couldn't work.
- 00:16:40.789 --> 00:16:42.925
- They couldn't worship. they couldn't associate.
- 00:16:42.925 --> 00:16:46.095
- They were starving.
- 00:16:46.095 --> 00:16:47.429
- They became beggars and some of their family
- 00:16:47.429 --> 00:16:50.632
- Would hide food for them in certain spots so they could
- 00:16:50.632 --> 00:16:53.368
- Even stay alive. if you can imagine living death, if
- 00:16:53.368 --> 00:16:56.872
- You can imagine walking death, it was someone who had leprosy.
- 00:16:56.872 --> 00:16:59.908
- "unclean, unclean." they were despised.
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- They were hated. they were abused.
- 00:17:02.411 --> 00:17:04.446
- They were shamed. they were disenfranchised.
- 00:17:04.446 --> 00:17:06.882
- They had no relation to anybody. nobody would dare touch a leper.
- 00:17:06.882 --> 00:17:11.787
- You get the picture?
- 00:17:11.787 --> 00:17:13.956
- And here, by the way, matthew says that this miracle took
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- Place following his teaching on the sermon on the mount
- 00:17:18.160 --> 00:17:21.930
- So there'd be thousands present.
- 00:17:21.930 --> 00:17:24.233
- And the leper could not go into a crowd,
- 00:17:24.233 --> 00:17:26.902
- But evidently this leper just lowed his head,
- 00:17:26.902 --> 00:17:29.338
- Unclean, and ran to jesus and you can be
- 00:17:29.338 --> 00:17:32.441
- Sure the crowd partied.
- 00:17:32.441 --> 00:17:35.611
- Unclean, unclean, he ran to jesus and fell at his feet,
- 00:17:35.611 --> 00:17:40.849
- And what'd he do?
- 00:17:40.849 --> 00:17:42.651
- First of all, he fell at his feet and he worshiped.
- 00:17:42.651 --> 00:17:46.088
- That's where we begin, folks. i want to worship.
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- I want to feel, i want to know.
- 00:17:48.490 --> 00:17:50.425
- He worshiped and then he confessed, "i'm unclean."
- 00:17:50.425 --> 00:17:53.395
- And then he had faith, he said, "lord, if you
- 00:17:53.395 --> 00:17:55.531
- Want to, you could heal me.
- 00:17:55.531 --> 00:17:57.933
- You can do it if you want to." that was faith.
- 00:17:57.933 --> 00:18:01.803
- And what did jesus do?
- 00:18:01.803 --> 00:18:04.506
- An amazing, an amazing thing here.
- 00:18:04.506 --> 00:18:08.744
- Instantly, he healed him.
- 00:18:08.744 --> 00:18:12.347
- Worship, confession, "i'm unclean," bang.
- 00:18:12.347 --> 00:18:19.154
- "i have faith," bang, healing.
- 00:18:19.154 --> 00:18:22.991
- And then jesus told him to go and show himself to the priest
- 00:18:22.991 --> 00:18:28.997
- And the priest would be the one in that day who would affirm
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- That he has indeed been healed.
- 00:18:32.434 --> 00:18:35.437
- Evidently his leprosy was an extreme part and you can imagine
- 00:18:35.437 --> 00:18:39.675
- His hands were worn--leprosy, we call it hansen's disease.
- 00:18:39.675 --> 00:18:44.346
- You lose feeling in all your nerve endings,
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- And therefore you put your hand in hot water.
- 00:18:46.848 --> 00:18:50.185
- You do not know it's hot.
- 00:18:50.185 --> 00:18:51.987
- And you get harmed and you lose sense of pain.
- 00:18:51.987 --> 00:18:56.391
- And for a period of time, there's depreciation of your
- 00:18:56.391 --> 00:18:59.394
- Face, and your hands, and your limbs,
- 00:18:59.394 --> 00:19:01.430
- And advanced leprosy is a horrendous physical presence.
- 00:19:01.430 --> 00:19:07.202
- This is where he was.
- 00:19:07.202 --> 00:19:08.537
- You imagine all this came back and he runs and finds a priest,
- 00:19:08.537 --> 00:19:12.107
- And the priest comes.
- 00:19:12.107 --> 00:19:13.442
- He shows himself to the priest. his skin is like a baby's skin.
- 00:19:13.442 --> 00:19:17.713
- Can you see the symbol of this? now he was like a baby.
- 00:19:17.713 --> 00:19:24.519
- It's like a brand-new life, a clean life, a pure life.
- 00:19:24.519 --> 00:19:29.691
- It all came about because at the feet of jesus,
- 00:19:29.691 --> 00:19:33.895
- Jesus touched him.
- 00:19:33.895 --> 00:19:37.599
- In the old testament, when someone who was clean touched
- 00:19:37.599 --> 00:19:43.005
- Someone who was unclean, the person
- 00:19:43.005 --> 00:19:45.907
- Who was clean became unclean.
- 00:19:45.907 --> 00:19:49.444
- But with jesus, when he touched him who was unclean,
- 00:19:49.444 --> 00:19:53.649
- Now he who was unclean became clean.
- 00:19:53.649 --> 00:19:58.887
- See the difference? this is a prelude of the cross.
- 00:19:58.887 --> 00:20:02.658
- Jesus took all of our leprosy, our sin,
- 00:20:02.658 --> 00:20:06.361
- Our uncleanliness upon himself so that we might be clean,
- 00:20:06.361 --> 00:20:13.001
- All in the touch of jesus, in the touch of jesus.
- 00:20:13.001 --> 00:20:18.173
- You see, this leper was never the same because
- 00:20:18.173 --> 00:20:22.511
- He'd been touched by jesus.
- 00:20:22.511 --> 00:20:23.912
- Peter was never the same. he'd been touched by jesus.
- 00:20:23.912 --> 00:20:26.815
- It all began at the foot of the lord.
- 00:20:26.815 --> 00:20:30.319
- Now look at this third big miracle here.
- 00:20:30.319 --> 00:20:33.055
- This tells us something even more interesting.
- 00:20:33.055 --> 00:20:36.725
- In a right relation with jesus, it means we've been saved.
- 00:20:36.725 --> 00:20:39.828
- We're salvaged. we're in god's family.
- 00:20:39.828 --> 00:20:42.364
- We're saved.
- 00:20:42.364 --> 00:20:44.032
- We not only see ourselves differently,
- 00:20:44.032 --> 00:20:46.735
- We see others differently.
- 00:20:46.735 --> 00:20:48.070
- We see the whole world with different eyes.
- 00:20:48.070 --> 00:20:50.906
- Look at this third miracle.
- 00:20:50.906 --> 00:20:56.211
- Verse 16, luke 5, "but jesus himself would often slip away
- 00:20:56.211 --> 00:21:01.116
- To the wilderness to pray.
- 00:21:01.116 --> 00:21:03.185
- One day he was teaching; there were some pharisees and teachers
- 00:21:03.185 --> 00:21:06.254
- Of the law sitting there, who had come from every village
- 00:21:06.254 --> 00:21:09.157
- Of galilee and judea and from jerusalem;
- 00:21:09.157 --> 00:21:11.126
- And the power of the lord was present for
- 00:21:11.126 --> 00:21:13.562
- Him to perform healing.
- 00:21:13.562 --> 00:21:15.797
- And some men were carrying on a bed a man who was paralyzed;
- 00:21:15.797 --> 00:21:20.902
- And they were trying to bring him in and
- 00:21:20.902 --> 00:21:22.604
- Set him down in front of him."
- 00:21:22.604 --> 00:21:25.374
- In front of him, where would that be?
- 00:21:25.374 --> 00:21:28.043
- The feet of jesus.
- 00:21:28.043 --> 00:21:29.778
- "but not finding any way to bring him in because of the
- 00:21:29.778 --> 00:21:32.547
- Crowd, and they went up to the roof and let him down through
- 00:21:32.547 --> 00:21:35.584
- The tiles with his stretcher, into the middle of the crowd,
- 00:21:35.584 --> 00:21:39.354
- In front of jesus," the feet of jesus.
- 00:21:39.354 --> 00:21:43.792
- Seeing their faith, he said, 'friend, your sins
- 00:21:43.792 --> 00:21:45.961
- Are forgiven, your sins are forgiven you.'
- 00:21:45.961 --> 00:21:50.399
- And the pharisees and the scribes began to reason,
- 00:21:50.399 --> 00:21:52.901
- Saying, 'who is this man who speaks blasphemies?
- 00:21:52.901 --> 00:21:57.172
- Who can forgive sin, but god alone?'
- 00:21:57.172 --> 00:21:59.207
- But jesus, aware of their reasonings,
- 00:21:59.207 --> 00:22:00.909
- Answered and said to them,
- 00:22:00.909 --> 00:22:02.577
- 'why are you reasoning in your hearts?
- 00:22:02.577 --> 00:22:05.280
- Which is easier, to say,'" follow me,
- 00:22:05.280 --> 00:22:08.417
- "'your sins have been forgiven you,' or to say,
- 00:22:08.417 --> 00:22:10.986
- 'get up and walk'?
- 00:22:10.986 --> 00:22:12.687
- But, so that you may know that the son of man--"
- 00:22:12.687 --> 00:22:16.124
- The first time jesus calls himself the son of man,
- 00:22:16.124 --> 00:22:19.127
- "has authority on earth to forgive sin.'
- 00:22:19.127 --> 00:22:21.797
- He said to the paralytic, 'i say to you, get up, and
- 00:22:21.797 --> 00:22:24.900
- Pick up your stretcher and go home.'
- 00:22:24.900 --> 00:22:27.135
- And immediately he got up before them,
- 00:22:27.135 --> 00:22:29.037
- Picked up what he had been lying on,
- 00:22:29.037 --> 00:22:30.739
- And went home glorifying god."
- 00:22:30.739 --> 00:22:33.809
- Great story, most of us are familiar with it.
- 00:22:33.809 --> 00:22:37.345
- I call this the ministry of the mat.
- 00:22:37.345 --> 00:22:39.681
- That's probably not original to me,
- 00:22:39.681 --> 00:22:41.349
- But i just think about those four guys,
- 00:22:41.349 --> 00:22:44.553
- Got their buddy on that mat.
- 00:22:44.553 --> 00:22:45.954
- Each one carrying a corner and they--we know how far they went.
- 00:22:45.954 --> 00:22:49.758
- They just heard jesus was in this house teaching.
- 00:22:49.758 --> 00:22:52.494
- They're gonna take him there and see if jesus
- 00:22:52.494 --> 00:22:54.196
- Would heal their buddy.
- 00:22:54.196 --> 00:22:55.997
- Boy, they loved him, didn't they?
- 00:22:55.997 --> 00:22:57.732
- Boy, to have friends like that.
- 00:22:57.732 --> 00:22:59.568
- But they got there, it was so packed,
- 00:22:59.568 --> 00:23:02.103
- They couldn't get him to the feet of jesus so they not only
- 00:23:02.103 --> 00:23:05.941
- Loved him, but they tenacious.
- 00:23:05.941 --> 00:23:08.543
- I like tenacious love.
- 00:23:08.543 --> 00:23:10.278
- You know, some of us say, "well, we've carried you this far.
- 00:23:10.278 --> 00:23:12.347
- We tried, that's the best we can do.
- 00:23:12.347 --> 00:23:13.982
- You just can't get to the healer, you know?
- 00:23:13.982 --> 00:23:17.252
- No way to get up there, it's too crowded."
- 00:23:17.252 --> 00:23:19.054
- But they went around back and they went up with that tenacity
- 00:23:19.054 --> 00:23:23.325
- And got on the roof.
- 00:23:23.325 --> 00:23:25.060
- They had stairs in these middle eastern homes.
- 00:23:25.060 --> 00:23:28.930
- You can go up on the roof. that's very common.
- 00:23:28.930 --> 00:23:30.866
- And then they go up there and then they got real creative.
- 00:23:30.866 --> 00:23:34.135
- They begin to cut a hole in the roof.
- 00:23:34.135 --> 00:23:37.372
- I'd have imagined standing there,
- 00:23:37.372 --> 00:23:38.707
- Jesus teaching and then all of a sudden,
- 00:23:38.707 --> 00:23:40.742
- The roof is opening.
- 00:23:40.742 --> 00:23:42.077
- What in the world?
- 00:23:42.077 --> 00:23:43.712
- Dust and men, all the dirt coming.
- 00:23:43.712 --> 00:23:45.580
- They would pack about 2 feet, by the way,
- 00:23:45.580 --> 00:23:47.115
- Of dirt there on the beams.
- 00:23:47.115 --> 00:23:50.185
- And they moved the tiles away and dirt was falling.
- 00:23:50.185 --> 00:23:52.888
- Jesus was teaching and the crowd must have thought,
- 00:23:52.888 --> 00:23:55.624
- "what in the world is happening in here?
- 00:23:55.624 --> 00:23:57.192
- Somebody up there."
- 00:23:57.192 --> 00:23:58.894
- And then all of a sudden, they lowered him down on ropes
- 00:23:58.894 --> 00:24:04.065
- Right at the feet of jesus.
- 00:24:04.065 --> 00:24:06.034
- Whoa, here, what a deal.
- 00:24:06.034 --> 00:24:10.872
- And jesus said, "your sins are forgiven you," and then he said,
- 00:24:10.872 --> 00:24:16.111
- "get up and walk."
- 00:24:16.111 --> 00:24:18.547
- That's the priority.
- 00:24:18.547 --> 00:24:20.215
- Whether he walked or not, he did here,
- 00:24:20.215 --> 00:24:24.286
- He was still whole.
- 00:24:24.286 --> 00:24:26.254
- He was still complete.
- 00:24:26.254 --> 00:24:28.290
- He still got it right, and you can be sure this paralytic now
- 00:24:28.290 --> 00:24:32.260
- Looked at the whole world with different eyes.
- 00:24:32.260 --> 00:24:36.464
- The basic problem is always a rebellion against the plan,
- 00:24:36.464 --> 00:24:40.602
- And the purpose, and the will of god.
- 00:24:40.602 --> 00:24:42.370
- We call it doing our own thing.
- 00:24:42.370 --> 00:24:44.339
- We call it sin and here we see that jesus touched him.
- 00:24:44.339 --> 00:24:52.447
- "get up, walk,' and he did. jesus touched him.
- 00:24:52.447 --> 00:24:56.217
- There's something about the hand that touched,
- 00:24:56.217 --> 00:24:58.520
- The word, the command of jesus that heals inside,
- 00:24:58.520 --> 00:25:02.657
- That's the most important place, and in his economy
- 00:25:02.657 --> 00:25:05.827
- On the outside, that's the second most important place.
- 00:25:05.827 --> 00:25:08.530
- Pastor ed: everybody in the world is hungry for something
- 00:25:10.599 --> 00:25:13.034
- That gives them assurance about the future and comfort about
- 00:25:13.034 --> 00:25:17.072
- What we are facing right today.
- 00:25:17.072 --> 00:25:20.342
- What all of us are looking for can only be found in god's word.
- 00:25:20.342 --> 00:25:25.647
- 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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- Today we go around the world potentially into 2 billion homes
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- With "the winning walk."
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- Now's the time to press forward to reach as many as we can with
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- The good news of what god has done for you, and for me,
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- And for all the world through the gift of his son,
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- Jesus christ.
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- I'm excited about today, i'm excited about tomorrow,
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- We get to heaven, we bring our little biographical sketch, only
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- What we've done to enable the lord jesus christ through his
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- Holy spirit will bring people to faith in jesus christ,
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