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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Deep Healing | July 20, 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
- 00:14:12.196 --> 00:14:14.432
- Have relationship with jesus christ.
- 00:14:14.432 --> 00:14:16.100
- And then the second big miracle, we see others differently when
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- We have a relationship with jesus.
- 00:14:20.872 --> 00:14:22.340
- 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.
- 00:14:32.717 --> 00:14:34.686
- "and when he saw jesus, he fell on his face--"
- 00:14:34.686 --> 00:14:38.189
- Y'all remember that? peter fell on his face.
- 00:14:38.189 --> 00:14:43.294
- The leper fell on his face. keep that in mind.
- 00:14:43.294 --> 00:14:46.564
- "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,
- 00:14:51.836 --> 00:14:56.307
- Saying, 'i am willing; be cleansed.'
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- And immediately the leprosy left him.
- 00:14:59.444 --> 00:15:01.679
- And jesus ordered him to tell no one,
- 00:15:01.679 --> 00:15:04.182
- '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.'"
- 00:15:11.756 --> 00:15:15.259
- And what's our point?
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- When we meet jesus, we not only see ourselves
- 00:15:17.762 --> 00:15:22.133
- A different way, as peter did.
- 00:15:22.133 --> 00:15:24.202
- 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.
- 00:15:27.939 --> 00:15:30.541
- 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,
- 00:16:01.706 --> 00:16:03.574
- "unclean--unclean."
- 00:16:03.574 --> 00:16:07.111
- And i'll tell you, people got away from you.
- 00:16:07.111 --> 00:16:10.048
- You could be sure of that.
- 00:16:10.048 --> 00:16:11.382
- You're going around saying, "ebola, ebola--"
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- In fact, the jews had a rule that you had to be
- 00:16:18.923 --> 00:16:22.860
- Two-and-a-half football fields away from a leper when the
- 00:16:22.860 --> 00:16:27.398
- 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.
- 00:16:33.037 --> 00:16:34.472
- If blowing the other way, you could stay only 30 yards away.
- 00:16:34.472 --> 00:16:36.974
- 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.
- 00:16:41.779 --> 00:16:43.915
- They couldn't worship. they couldn't associate.
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- They were starving.
- 00:16:47.085 --> 00:16:48.419
- They became beggars and some of their family
- 00:16:48.419 --> 00:16:51.622
- Would hide food for them in certain spots so they could
- 00:16:51.622 --> 00:16:54.358
- Even stay alive. if you can imagine living death, if
- 00:16:54.358 --> 00:16:57.862
- You can imagine walking death, it was someone who had leprosy.
- 00:16:57.862 --> 00:17:00.898
- "unclean, unclean." they were despised.
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- They were hated. they were abused.
- 00:17:03.401 --> 00:17:05.436
- They were shamed. they were disenfranchised.
- 00:17:05.436 --> 00:17:07.872
- They had no relation to anybody. nobody would dare touch a leper.
- 00:17:07.872 --> 00:17:12.777
- You get the picture?
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- 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
- 00:17:19.150 --> 00:17:22.920
- So there'd be thousands present.
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- And the leper could not go into a crowd,
- 00:17:25.223 --> 00:17:27.892
- But evidently this leper just lowed his head,
- 00:17:27.892 --> 00:17:30.328
- Unclean, and ran to jesus and you can be
- 00:17:30.328 --> 00:17:33.431
- Sure the crowd partied.
- 00:17:33.431 --> 00:17:36.601
- Unclean, unclean, he ran to jesus and fell at his feet,
- 00:17:36.601 --> 00:17:41.839
- And what'd he do?
- 00:17:41.839 --> 00:17:43.641
- First of all, he fell at his feet and he worshiped.
- 00:17:43.641 --> 00:17:47.078
- That's where we begin, folks. i want to worship.
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- I want to feel, i want to know.
- 00:17:49.480 --> 00:17:51.415
- He worshiped and then he confessed, "i'm unclean."
- 00:17:51.415 --> 00:17:54.385
- And then he had faith, he said, "lord, if you
- 00:17:54.385 --> 00:17:56.521
- Want to, you could heal me.
- 00:17:56.521 --> 00:17:58.923
- You can do it if you want to." that was faith.
- 00:17:58.923 --> 00:18:02.793
- And what did jesus do?
- 00:18:02.793 --> 00:18:05.496
- An amazing, an amazing thing here.
- 00:18:05.496 --> 00:18:09.734
- Instantly, he healed him.
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- Worship, confession, "i'm unclean," bang.
- 00:18:13.337 --> 00:18:20.144
- "i have faith," bang, healing.
- 00:18:20.144 --> 00:18:23.981
- And then jesus told him to go and show himself to the priest
- 00:18:23.981 --> 00:18:29.987
- And the priest would be the one in that day who would affirm
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- That he has indeed been healed.
- 00:18:33.424 --> 00:18:36.427
- Evidently his leprosy was an extreme part and you can imagine
- 00:18:36.427 --> 00:18:40.665
- His hands were worn--leprosy, we call it hansen's disease.
- 00:18:40.665 --> 00:18:45.336
- You lose feeling in all your nerve endings,
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- And therefore you put your hand in hot water.
- 00:18:47.838 --> 00:18:51.175
- You do not know it's hot.
- 00:18:51.175 --> 00:18:52.977
- And you get harmed and you lose sense of pain.
- 00:18:52.977 --> 00:18:57.381
- And for a period of time, there's depreciation of your
- 00:18:57.381 --> 00:19:00.384
- Face, and your hands, and your limbs,
- 00:19:00.384 --> 00:19:02.420
- And advanced leprosy is a horrendous physical presence.
- 00:19:02.420 --> 00:19:08.192
- This is where he was.
- 00:19:08.192 --> 00:19:09.527
- You imagine all this came back and he runs and finds a priest,
- 00:19:09.527 --> 00:19:13.097
- And the priest comes.
- 00:19:13.097 --> 00:19:14.432
- He shows himself to the priest. his skin is like a baby's skin.
- 00:19:14.432 --> 00:19:18.703
- Can you see the symbol of this? now he was like a baby.
- 00:19:18.703 --> 00:19:25.509
- It's like a brand-new life, a clean life, a pure life.
- 00:19:25.509 --> 00:19:30.681
- It all came about because at the feet of jesus,
- 00:19:30.681 --> 00:19:34.885
- Jesus touched him.
- 00:19:34.885 --> 00:19:38.589
- In the old testament, when someone who was clean touched
- 00:19:38.589 --> 00:19:43.995
- Someone who was unclean, the person
- 00:19:43.995 --> 00:19:46.897
- Who was clean became unclean.
- 00:19:46.897 --> 00:19:50.434
- But with jesus, when he touched him who was unclean,
- 00:19:50.434 --> 00:19:54.639
- Now he who was unclean became clean.
- 00:19:54.639 --> 00:19:59.877
- See the difference? this is a prelude of the cross.
- 00:19:59.877 --> 00:20:03.648
- Jesus took all of our leprosy, our sin,
- 00:20:03.648 --> 00:20:07.351
- Our uncleanliness upon himself so that we might be clean,
- 00:20:07.351 --> 00:20:13.991
- All in the touch of jesus, in the touch of jesus.
- 00:20:13.991 --> 00:20:19.163
- You see, this leper was never the same because
- 00:20:19.163 --> 00:20:23.501
- He'd been touched by jesus.
- 00:20:23.501 --> 00:20:24.902
- Peter was never the same. he'd been touched by jesus.
- 00:20:24.902 --> 00:20:27.805
- It all began at the foot of the lord.
- 00:20:27.805 --> 00:20:31.309
- Now look at this third big miracle here.
- 00:20:31.309 --> 00:20:34.045
- This tells us something even more interesting.
- 00:20:34.045 --> 00:20:37.715
- In a right relation with jesus, it means we've been saved.
- 00:20:37.715 --> 00:20:40.818
- We're salvaged. we're in god's family.
- 00:20:40.818 --> 00:20:43.354
- We're saved.
- 00:20:43.354 --> 00:20:45.022
- We not only see ourselves differently,
- 00:20:45.022 --> 00:20:47.725
- We see others differently.
- 00:20:47.725 --> 00:20:49.060
- We see the whole world with different eyes.
- 00:20:49.060 --> 00:20:51.896
- Look at this third miracle.
- 00:20:51.896 --> 00:20:57.201
- Verse 16, luke 5, "but jesus himself would often slip away
- 00:20:57.201 --> 00:21:02.106
- To the wilderness to pray.
- 00:21:02.106 --> 00:21:04.175
- One day he was teaching; there were some pharisees and teachers
- 00:21:04.175 --> 00:21:07.244
- Of the law sitting there, who had come from every village
- 00:21:07.244 --> 00:21:10.147
- Of galilee and judea and from jerusalem;
- 00:21:10.147 --> 00:21:12.116
- And the power of the lord was present for
- 00:21:12.116 --> 00:21:14.552
- Him to perform healing.
- 00:21:14.552 --> 00:21:16.787
- And some men were carrying on a bed a man who was paralyzed;
- 00:21:16.787 --> 00:21:21.892
- And they were trying to bring him in and
- 00:21:21.892 --> 00:21:23.594
- Set him down in front of him."
- 00:21:23.594 --> 00:21:26.364
- In front of him, where would that be?
- 00:21:26.364 --> 00:21:29.033
- The feet of jesus.
- 00:21:29.033 --> 00:21:30.768
- "but not finding any way to bring him in because of the
- 00:21:30.768 --> 00:21:33.537
- Crowd, and they went up to the roof and let him down through
- 00:21:33.537 --> 00:21:36.574
- The tiles with his stretcher, into the middle of the crowd,
- 00:21:36.574 --> 00:21:40.344
- In front of jesus," the feet of jesus.
- 00:21:40.344 --> 00:21:44.782
- Seeing their faith, he said, 'friend, your sins
- 00:21:44.782 --> 00:21:46.951
- Are forgiven, your sins are forgiven you.'
- 00:21:46.951 --> 00:21:51.389
- And the pharisees and the scribes began to reason,
- 00:21:51.389 --> 00:21:53.891
- Saying, 'who is this man who speaks blasphemies?
- 00:21:53.891 --> 00:21:58.162
- Who can forgive sin, but god alone?'
- 00:21:58.162 --> 00:22:00.197
- But jesus, aware of their reasonings,
- 00:22:00.197 --> 00:22:01.899
- Answered and said to them,
- 00:22:01.899 --> 00:22:03.567
- 'why are you reasoning in your hearts?
- 00:22:03.567 --> 00:22:06.270
- Which is easier, to say,'" follow me,
- 00:22:06.270 --> 00:22:09.407
- "'your sins have been forgiven you,' or to say,
- 00:22:09.407 --> 00:22:11.976
- 'get up and walk'?
- 00:22:11.976 --> 00:22:13.677
- But, so that you may know that the son of man--"
- 00:22:13.677 --> 00:22:17.114
- The first time jesus calls himself the son of man,
- 00:22:17.114 --> 00:22:20.117
- "has authority on earth to forgive sin.'
- 00:22:20.117 --> 00:22:22.787
- He said to the paralytic, 'i say to you, get up, and
- 00:22:22.787 --> 00:22:25.890
- Pick up your stretcher and go home.'
- 00:22:25.890 --> 00:22:28.125
- And immediately he got up before them,
- 00:22:28.125 --> 00:22:30.027
- Picked up what he had been lying on,
- 00:22:30.027 --> 00:22:31.729
- And went home glorifying god."
- 00:22:31.729 --> 00:22:34.799
- Great story, most of us are familiar with it.
- 00:22:34.799 --> 00:22:38.335
- I call this the ministry of the mat.
- 00:22:38.335 --> 00:22:40.671
- That's probably not original to me,
- 00:22:40.671 --> 00:22:42.339
- But i just think about those four guys,
- 00:22:42.339 --> 00:22:45.543
- Got their buddy on that mat.
- 00:22:45.543 --> 00:22:46.944
- Each one carrying a corner and they--we know how far they went.
- 00:22:46.944 --> 00:22:50.748
- They just heard jesus was in this house teaching.
- 00:22:50.748 --> 00:22:53.484
- They're gonna take him there and see if jesus
- 00:22:53.484 --> 00:22:55.186
- Would heal their buddy.
- 00:22:55.186 --> 00:22:56.987
- Boy, they loved him, didn't they?
- 00:22:56.987 --> 00:22:58.722
- Boy, to have friends like that.
- 00:22:58.722 --> 00:23:00.558
- But they got there, it was so packed,
- 00:23:00.558 --> 00:23:03.093
- They couldn't get him to the feet of jesus so they not only
- 00:23:03.093 --> 00:23:06.931
- Loved him, but they tenacious.
- 00:23:06.931 --> 00:23:09.533
- I like tenacious love.
- 00:23:09.533 --> 00:23:11.268
- You know, some of us say, "well, we've carried you this far.
- 00:23:11.268 --> 00:23:13.337
- We tried, that's the best we can do.
- 00:23:13.337 --> 00:23:14.972
- You just can't get to the healer, you know?
- 00:23:14.972 --> 00:23:18.242
- No way to get up there, it's too crowded."
- 00:23:18.242 --> 00:23:20.044
- But they went around back and they went up with that tenacity
- 00:23:20.044 --> 00:23:24.315
- And got on the roof.
- 00:23:24.315 --> 00:23:26.050
- They had stairs in these middle eastern homes.
- 00:23:26.050 --> 00:23:29.920
- You can go up on the roof. that's very common.
- 00:23:29.920 --> 00:23:31.856
- And then they go up there and then they got real creative.
- 00:23:31.856 --> 00:23:35.125
- They begin to cut a hole in the roof.
- 00:23:35.125 --> 00:23:38.362
- I'd have imagined standing there,
- 00:23:38.362 --> 00:23:39.697
- Jesus teaching and then all of a sudden,
- 00:23:39.697 --> 00:23:41.732
- The roof is opening.
- 00:23:41.732 --> 00:23:43.067
- What in the world?
- 00:23:43.067 --> 00:23:44.702
- Dust and men, all the dirt coming.
- 00:23:44.702 --> 00:23:46.570
- They would pack about 2 feet, by the way,
- 00:23:46.570 --> 00:23:48.105
- Of dirt there on the beams.
- 00:23:48.105 --> 00:23:51.175
- And they moved the tiles away and dirt was falling.
- 00:23:51.175 --> 00:23:53.878
- Jesus was teaching and the crowd must have thought,
- 00:23:53.878 --> 00:23:56.614
- "what in the world is happening in here?
- 00:23:56.614 --> 00:23:58.182
- Somebody up there."
- 00:23:58.182 --> 00:23:59.884
- And then all of a sudden, they lowered him down on ropes
- 00:23:59.884 --> 00:24:05.055
- Right at the feet of jesus.
- 00:24:05.055 --> 00:24:07.024
- Whoa, here, what a deal.
- 00:24:07.024 --> 00:24:11.862
- And jesus said, "your sins are forgiven you," and then he said,
- 00:24:11.862 --> 00:24:17.101
- "get up and walk."
- 00:24:17.101 --> 00:24:19.537
- That's the priority.
- 00:24:19.537 --> 00:24:21.205
- Whether he walked or not, he did here,
- 00:24:21.205 --> 00:24:25.276
- He was still whole.
- 00:24:25.276 --> 00:24:27.244
- He was still complete.
- 00:24:27.244 --> 00:24:29.280
- He still got it right, and you can be sure this paralytic now
- 00:24:29.280 --> 00:24:33.250
- Looked at the whole world with different eyes.
- 00:24:33.250 --> 00:24:37.454
- The basic problem is always a rebellion against the plan,
- 00:24:37.454 --> 00:24:41.592
- And the purpose, and the will of god.
- 00:24:41.592 --> 00:24:43.360
- We call it doing our own thing.
- 00:24:43.360 --> 00:24:45.329
- We call it sin and here we see that jesus touched him.
- 00:24:45.329 --> 00:24:53.437
- "get up, walk,' and he did. jesus touched him.
- 00:24:53.437 --> 00:24:57.207
- There's something about the hand that touched,
- 00:24:57.207 --> 00:24:59.510
- The word, the command of jesus that heals inside,
- 00:24:59.510 --> 00:25:03.647
- That's the most important place, and in his economy
- 00:25:03.647 --> 00:25:06.817
- On the outside, that's the second most important place.
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- Pastor ed: everybody in the world is hungry for something
- 00:25:11.589 --> 00:25:14.024
- That gives them assurance about the future and comfort about
- 00:25:14.024 --> 00:25:18.062
- What we are facing right today.
- 00:25:18.062 --> 00:25:21.332
- What all of us are looking for can only be found in god's word.
- 00:25:21.332 --> 00:25:26.637
- 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 for all the world through the gift of his son,
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- Jesus christ.
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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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