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Ed Young - Discovering and Using Your Gifts

October 28, 2025 | 29:0

Ed Young - Discovering and Using Your Gifts
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 - Discovering and Using Your Gifts | October 28, 2025
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  • Dr. young: what if everybody in this church were like you?
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  • What kind of church would we have?
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  • Would we be able to turn on the lights?
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  • Would we be able to sing?
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  • Would be able to have worship?
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  • Would be able to go on mission trips?
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  • Would we be able to care for our children?
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  • What if everybody in the church was,
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  • Was a churchman like you are?
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  • What kind of church would we have?
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  • So here we are, in the family of god, set aside,
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  • And we are transformed from inside and out,
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  • And we've discovered in the scripture about transformation,
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  • And transformation leads to humility.
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  • Listen to what paul tells us.
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  • It says, "for through grace (charis) given to me, i say to
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  • Everyone among you not to think more highly of himself than he
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  • Ought to think, but to think so as to have sound judgment as
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  • God has allotted to each a measure of faith."
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  • In other words, paul is saying, "don't sit too high."
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  • Do you sit too high?
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  • Uh, you know, an obvious braggadocios person,
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  • "well, let me tell you where i've been.
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  • Let me tell you who i know...
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  • Let me tell you what i have...
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  • Let me tell you what i can do....
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  • Eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh..."
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  • Those kind of folks are kind of obvious.
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  • I don't know why they can't figure it out, but evidently we
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  • Can't, and the braggadocios -we sit too high.
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  • And by the way, a part of being braggadocios is, let's say for
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  • Example that i was part of the making of that pulpit,
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  • And a lady in my church made it, if i'm not mistaken.
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  • She does this...
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  • And you would say to me, "boy, uh,"
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  • And i would say, "you know, that pulpit didn't turn
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  • Out like i thought it would..."
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  • You said, "oh no, it's really good, ed.
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  • That's a good-looking pulpit."
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  • "well tell me why you think it's good looking.
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  • I mean, you know..."
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  • We, we play modest...
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  • "oh, that's a good sermon, pastor!"
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  • "no, it wasn't any good...
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  • You know, what did you think was good about it"?
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  • "well, it was good when you said this..."
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  • "oh, what, what else was good"?
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  • "well it was good..."
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  • You know we're, we're hunting for people to boast
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  • Us up in our false humility!
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  • Don't sit there so pious. you do that!
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  • So we can sit too high, and we can sink too low.
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  • Paul says faith gives us the ability to rightly estimate who
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  • We are and what we're about, and how we fit into the family
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  • Of god-our calling in the family of god.
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  • It gives us humility-humility, to know who you are, know who i
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  • Am, what i'm about, what my purpose is, what my call is...
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  • We have humility, and we don't sit too high;
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  • We don't sink too low.
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  • We have humility because we know that god has a plan
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  • And a purpose for your life and
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  • My life in the body of faith, the church!
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  • Also, we see not only does transformation produce humility,
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  • But also, transformation produces unity in diversity,
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  • And look how that works.
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  • Look at verse 4: "for just as we have many members of one body
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  • And all the members do not have the same function..."
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  • Wait a minute.
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  • That's the physical body.
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  • Okay? we have many members.
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  • My big toe has never gotten in an argument with my ear as to
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  • Who is the most important -never has happened.
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  • Maybe it has with you; i've never experienced that.
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  • You know, my hand doesn't say, "oh, i wish i were a nose.
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  • I'd love to be a nose!
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  • Oh, i'm sorry!
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  • Maybe next time!"
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  • You know, our bodies, our physical bodies
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  • - are we fearfully and wonderfully made, or what?
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  • (audience applauds).
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  • Paul is saying the body designed, given by god to
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  • Function together; we need all the members of it.
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  • One part is no better than the other part.
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  • They function together, and look, he says,
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  • The same thing about the church.
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  • That's why god has built his body, the church, so we who are
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  • Many are one body in christ, verse 5, and individually
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  • Members, one of another.
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  • We lean on one another.
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  • It's the body of the church.
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  • It's like we're a symphony orchestra for god.
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  • All of us have a part in the orchestra.
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  • Man, man, man, you have over here, you have the strings.
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  • Boy, i love the strings!
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  • You know, the violin, uh, the cello, uh, the base violin!
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  • Boy, we have strings in orchestra.
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  • You can't just have the strings;
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  • You also have to have the percussion.
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  • It seems like there's more of them than anybody else.
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  • That's the drums, that's thy cymbals.
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  • That's all-but you gotta have percussion, and you gotta have
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  • The woodwinds-the clarinets, the flutes, the sax, the
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  • Piccolo-yeah, you gotta have the woodwinds, you know,
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  • And you gotta have the brass -the trumpets, the trombones,
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  • The french horns...
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  • It takes everybody in the symphony to produce the
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  • Beautiful music that is there.
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  • So it is the body of christ, the church.
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  • And we have a, the same score.
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  • Hah!
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  • We've got the same music, don't we?
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  • Right here?
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  • And we have the holy spirit as the conductor.
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  • What if somebody didn't show up?
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  • "owww....
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  • We sure needed that base horn..."
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  • Owww, what if somebody's a little sharp?
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  • Owww! boy!
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  • That messes up the whole thing we're trying to sing here!
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  • What if somebody is out of tune?
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  • Owww-it doesn't...
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  • But what if by the holy spirit, we're using our giftedness as
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  • God has given us, whatever that role may be, whatever instrument
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  • We play in, in the orchestra of the church-my goodness!
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  • It is a magnificent sound!
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  • And people want to be a part of it, because the music of
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  • The church would be so magnificent, it would be so
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  • Warm, we'd all be serving and playing our role
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  • -people would be trying any way they could to come
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  • And be a part of a family of god like this.
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  • That's the orchestra!
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  • What if everybody in the church were like you, or like me?
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  • What kind of church would we have?
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  • Man, paul says-man, use the giftedness
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  • He's given every one of us.
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  • And then he gives a list of gifts in the bible,
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  • Four clear places.
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  • Uh, i corinthians chapter 12; ephesians 4;
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  • I peter 4; and romans 12.
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  • And these are all partial lists, but they're long lists.
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  • By the way, you say, "well what can i do in the church"?
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  • We have hundreds of positions here just waiting for you
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  • To show up and claim.
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  • You say, "well, i went there and tried that,
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  • And that didn't work."
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  • Well, hello!
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  • "i went and tried the violin.
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  • I took two lessons, and you know,
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  • I couldn't play the violin.
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  • I eh, eh, eh..."
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  • Maybe you ought to play something else.
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  • Other words, there's an instrument,
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  • There's a role that will use your gifts.
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  • You say, "well, i think my gift is this..."
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  • It may not be that.
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  • My gift and your gift has to be affirmed by the body.
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  • That helps us.
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  • But there's a role we could play.
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  • You say, "well, this gift is so small..."
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  • Listen-little is much when god is in it.
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  • Have you discovered that?
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  • It's much when god-whatever that gift may be.
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  • I know people that are totally incapacitated,
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  • And now they've become tremendous prayer warriors!
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  • I call 'em and say, "pray about this..."
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  • And i know, man, heaven's fortress is being bombarded
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  • With people who are interceding.
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  • You see, we have ministry here, and here's seven of those
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  • Gifts that are there that god gives the church.
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  • There are many in the other listings here.
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  • Let's look at them.
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  • And this means that-remember where we are, because we've been
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  • Transformed-presented our body, renewing our minds.
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  • We know the will of god, and transformation gives
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  • Us genuine humility.
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  • Transformation shows us unity and diversity in the body,
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  • In the church of the lord jesus christ,
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  • And now transformation gives us ministry.
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  • We have a role to play.
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  • What are some of these ministries?
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  • Let's look at them.
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  • He lists them.
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  • "since we have gifts that differ according to the grace given to
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  • Each one of us to exercise them accordingly; if prophecy,
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  • According to the proportion of our faith."
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  • Prophecy.
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  • Prophecy in the new testament does not mean to predict.
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  • It's not to predict.
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  • It is not to-it is to proclaim forth.
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  • It is to speak.
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  • The gift of prophecy. we have the ability to speak.
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  • A lot of people think, "well, i can teach."
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  • Well, the gift of speaking,
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  • Prophecy will be affirmed by people.
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  • And we know that when we have this gift,
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  • People listen to us.
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  • That's a good test.
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  • Look over in i samuel 3, it says,
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  • "thus samuel grew, and the lord was with him.
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  • Let none of his words fail."
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  • And really, one translation -"none of his words
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  • Fall to the ground."
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  • When you speak as i speak, i know sometimes my words go
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  • Puuuuuu-boom!
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  • Other times, i know my words go, pshew!
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  • Like an arrow.
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  • You see, the gift--the person who has the gift of prophecy,
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  • You know intuitively that there are words that god gives
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  • And god speaks and shweww!
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  • They go like an arrow-like an arrow, and they hit home,
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  • And they have power in them.
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  • Not of the speaker, but this is a part of the gift,
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  • Part of the gift of prophecy.
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  • Look at the next gift that we have here-a, a list of them.
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  • Go back to romans chapter number 12,
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  • If you flipped over there with me.
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  • It says, "if service, in serving then..."
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  • The gift of service.
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  • Say, "well, i don't know if i have that gift or not."
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  • You see something that needs to be done and you start doing it,
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  • You may have that gift.
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  • And look at the service gifts that operate in this church.
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  • My goodness! it's unbelievable!
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  • Who turned the lights on? who cleans up?
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  • Who moves out over here? who does this?
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  • Who's on that mission project? who went to that home?
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  • Who was at that rest home? who was ministering to that kid?
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  • What happened in that death? what happened in that divorce?
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  • What happened in that heartache?
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  • What happened in the economic crisis?
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  • We've got people serving a multiplicity
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  • -thousands and thousands of ways every day!
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  • The gift of service is being used.
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  • Do you have that gift?
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  • And by the way, you need to operate primarily
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  • Inside your gift.
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  • A lot of times, i'm studying, and i go up to the church,
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  • And, and i know i have to spend time in the word.
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  • I spend 20 to 30 hours every single week
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  • Alone with that book.
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  • I'm a slow learner.
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  • I have to do it.
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  • I really am, and therefore, a lot of times, i'm going,
  • 00:11:32.515 --> 00:11:35.184
  • Somebody be going off and say, well this week, said,
  • 00:11:35.184 --> 00:11:38.053
  • "we're gonna build some houses. come help us, pastor!"
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  • I'd love to!
  • 00:11:40.289 --> 00:11:42.691
  • A lot more thrilling out there than in the book, seeking god's
  • 00:11:42.691 --> 00:11:46.695
  • Voice and mind to deal with me first, and then what he would
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  • Have me to say on behalf of the lord.
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  • That's overwhelming to me-overwhelming to me.
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  • I'd lot rather go build a house.
  • 00:11:54.937 --> 00:11:56.839
  • You see, i'm a shepherd.
  • 00:11:56.839 --> 00:11:58.174
  • A shepherd loves to be with sheep,
  • 00:11:58.174 --> 00:11:59.508
  • But i have to exercise inside my gifts.
  • 00:11:59.508 --> 00:12:02.578
  • I'd love to go to that mission trip's going to india.
  • 00:12:02.578 --> 00:12:05.147
  • Man, i would be thrilled to go!
  • 00:12:05.147 --> 00:12:06.849
  • I know i can't do that.
  • 00:12:06.849 --> 00:12:08.617
  • So you gotta decide your gifts and find out what they are and
  • 00:12:08.617 --> 00:12:11.687
  • Use your time, your effort and energy to use those gifts.
  • 00:12:11.687 --> 00:12:14.456
  • Doesn't mean we don't have more than one gift.
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  • It doesn't mean that all of us will not just do anything
  • 00:12:16.559 --> 00:12:18.727
  • We have to do to, to enhance the church.
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  • Certainly we work outside of our gifts;
  • 00:12:21.397 --> 00:12:22.998
  • But find out what our gift is and use it.
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  • If it's prophecy, tell forth.
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  • If it's service, serve.
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  • If it's teaching, that's another skill.
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  • Uh, teaching has an unusual calling about it.
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  • It means that you really spend time in the book here.
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  • It says in teaching-teach.
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  • Teachers who teach.
  • 00:12:41.483 --> 00:12:42.818
  • By the way, after every one of these gifts, there is a verb.
  • 00:12:42.818 --> 00:12:46.789
  • You don't just have prophecy; you prophesy.
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  • You don't have the gift of teaching; you teach.
  • 00:12:49.892 --> 00:12:52.928
  • I saw last week, a man who taught for
  • 00:12:52.928 --> 00:12:55.297
  • Several years in our church.
  • 00:12:55.297 --> 00:12:56.632
  • I mean, he was a terrific bible teacher,
  • 00:12:56.632 --> 00:13:00.069
  • But he's no longer teaching.
  • 00:13:00.069 --> 00:13:01.570
  • He hadn't taught for about 4 years.
  • 00:13:01.570 --> 00:13:04.173
  • You see, his children left home.
  • 00:13:04.173 --> 00:13:06.942
  • He and his wife go places on the weekend.
  • 00:13:06.942 --> 00:13:09.278
  • They may go to football game; they may go here, and there, and
  • 00:13:09.278 --> 00:13:11.847
  • Yon, and, and they say, "you know, we're just doing so many
  • 00:13:11.847 --> 00:13:14.149
  • Things, i don't have time to teach right now."
  • 00:13:14.149 --> 00:13:18.053
  • Now under the years here -"wait til' my children leave.
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  • I'll really have time to give to the church."
  • 00:13:20.389 --> 00:13:21.991
  • No, they have time for themselves.
  • 00:13:21.991 --> 00:13:23.525
  • I can tell you, he hadn't taught for 3 or 4 years; i can tell
  • 00:13:23.525 --> 00:13:25.594
  • You, his gift of teaching has begun to shrivel up.
  • 00:13:25.594 --> 00:13:29.832
  • When you use a gift, it gets bigger, it has more
  • 00:13:29.832 --> 00:13:33.602
  • Significance, whether it's teaching, or prophecy;
  • 00:13:33.602 --> 00:13:37.439
  • Whether it's service-oh yeah.
  • 00:13:37.439 --> 00:13:39.842
  • That's the way god operates.
  • 00:13:39.842 --> 00:13:41.176
  • He gives us, this book says, just as much faith we need to
  • 00:13:41.176 --> 00:13:44.847
  • Handle the gift that he's given to you and me.
  • 00:13:44.847 --> 00:13:48.083
  • So teaching is a very, very important gift that has
  • 00:13:48.083 --> 00:13:51.120
  • Tremendous responsibility with it.
  • 00:13:51.120 --> 00:13:53.055
  • Look at the next gift they have.
  • 00:13:53.055 --> 00:13:54.823
  • "if exhortation..."
  • 00:13:54.823 --> 00:13:56.725
  • What's exhortation? it's to comfort people.
  • 00:13:56.725 --> 00:13:59.695
  • It's to encourage people.
  • 00:13:59.695 --> 00:14:01.030
  • Barnabas was the biblical example of the exhortation.
  • 00:14:01.030 --> 00:14:04.166
  • Did you know the apostle paul, ten years after damascus road
  • 00:14:04.166 --> 00:14:08.137
  • Experience, was on the bench?
  • 00:14:08.137 --> 00:14:10.739
  • He wasn't on god's team.
  • 00:14:10.739 --> 00:14:12.841
  • He went home to mama. he was hiding out in tarsus.
  • 00:14:12.841 --> 00:14:15.844
  • Barnabas had the gift of exhortation.
  • 00:14:15.844 --> 00:14:18.080
  • He said, "where is that guy, saul?
  • 00:14:18.080 --> 00:14:20.182
  • Let's go get him! we need him.
  • 00:14:20.182 --> 00:14:22.318
  • He's, he's a roman citizen.
  • 00:14:22.318 --> 00:14:24.320
  • He's, he's familiar with the jews.
  • 00:14:24.320 --> 00:14:26.388
  • He knows the greeks and bar, barnabas encouraged paul to come
  • 00:14:26.388 --> 00:14:30.559
  • Back and get in god's game, and he did,
  • 00:14:30.559 --> 00:14:34.096
  • And became the most effective instrument perhaps the
  • 00:14:34.096 --> 00:14:36.699
  • Lord has ever used in his church.
  • 00:14:36.699 --> 00:14:41.036
  • You see, barnabas had the gift of gift of exhortation.
  • 00:14:41.036 --> 00:14:44.473
  • He was a cheerleader! you cheer people.
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  • You encourage people.
  • 00:14:46.675 --> 00:14:48.243
  • You build them up.
  • 00:14:48.243 --> 00:14:49.611
  • But you always see something wrong.
  • 00:14:49.611 --> 00:14:52.014
  • It was a delicious cake, but the icing was a little thick.
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  • Well, hurrah for you!
  • 00:14:57.052 --> 00:15:00.889
  • The gift of exhortation, how it needs to be exercised in the
  • 00:15:00.889 --> 00:15:06.228
  • Church, and we all can do that.
  • 00:15:06.228 --> 00:15:07.796
  • Some are exceedingly gifted in it.
  • 00:15:07.796 --> 00:15:09.765
  • Doesn't mean phony stuff -real stuff.
  • 00:15:09.765 --> 00:15:13.335
  • All right.
  • 00:15:13.335 --> 00:15:15.304
  • And then he who gives with liberality...
  • 00:15:15.304 --> 00:15:17.840
  • By the way, this is not just giving of our means.
  • 00:15:17.840 --> 00:15:20.409
  • This is giving of ourselves.
  • 00:15:20.409 --> 00:15:21.744
  • A lot of people are reticent to make new friends, to get
  • 00:15:21.744 --> 00:15:25.514
  • Involved with new people, to ask leading questions because
  • 00:15:25.514 --> 00:15:29.785
  • It may cost you something.
  • 00:15:29.785 --> 00:15:32.254
  • They may have some need that you can meet.
  • 00:15:32.254 --> 00:15:35.090
  • They may have a problem you can counsel them about.
  • 00:15:35.090 --> 00:15:37.760
  • Therefore, we sort of don't give ourselves...
  • 00:15:37.760 --> 00:15:39.928
  • We, you know, "hello, how are you"?
  • 00:15:39.928 --> 00:15:42.331
  • "fine..."
  • 00:15:42.331 --> 00:15:43.665
  • If they said, "no, i'm not too good..."
  • 00:15:43.665 --> 00:15:45.000
  • You say, "well, i'm sorry..." eh, eh, eh, eh....
  • 00:15:45.000 --> 00:15:47.936
  • "how are you"? "fine."
  • 00:15:47.936 --> 00:15:49.271
  • "how are you"? "i'm fine."
  • 00:15:49.271 --> 00:15:50.606
  • "how are the children"? "everybody's fine..."
  • 00:15:50.606 --> 00:15:51.940
  • And man, the bottom's falling out of your life.
  • 00:15:51.940 --> 00:15:53.842
  • When somebody has the gift of giving, they, get,
  • 00:15:53.842 --> 00:15:55.477
  • Well what, what's going on?
  • 00:15:55.477 --> 00:15:57.279
  • How may i help"?
  • 00:15:57.279 --> 00:15:58.614
  • Let's listen, let's be a part of the healing, see?
  • 00:15:58.614 --> 00:16:01.350
  • That's, you've got the gift of giving.
  • 00:16:01.350 --> 00:16:02.918
  • Everybody doesn't have it, but you have it.
  • 00:16:02.918 --> 00:16:04.920
  • That's giving.
  • 00:16:04.920 --> 00:16:06.388
  • All right... look-give with liberality.
  • 00:16:06.388 --> 00:16:08.791
  • And then, "he who leads, lead with diligence."
  • 00:16:08.791 --> 00:16:11.627
  • Leadership is the most misunderstood gift
  • 00:16:11.627 --> 00:16:13.996
  • I know anything about.
  • 00:16:13.996 --> 00:16:15.397
  • It really is.
  • 00:16:15.397 --> 00:16:17.166
  • People think, "well, teach me how to be a leader."
  • 00:16:17.166 --> 00:16:19.301
  • You don't learn how to be a leader!
  • 00:16:19.301 --> 00:16:21.303
  • It is a gift!
  • 00:16:21.303 --> 00:16:23.639
  • If you have the gift, your giftedness can be enhanced, but
  • 00:16:23.639 --> 00:16:27.276
  • It's a gift, and how we need leaders in the body of christ,
  • 00:16:27.276 --> 00:16:32.414
  • Leading in the market place.
  • 00:16:32.414 --> 00:16:34.883
  • Do you know the principle of gleaning?
  • 00:16:34.883 --> 00:16:37.186
  • Gleaning?
  • 00:16:37.186 --> 00:16:38.587
  • Very few people do.
  • 00:16:38.587 --> 00:16:40.189
  • It's an old testament principle.
  • 00:16:40.189 --> 00:16:41.523
  • You read about it in the book of ruth and in other places.
  • 00:16:41.523 --> 00:16:45.794
  • In jewish days, when you would own a field,
  • 00:16:45.794 --> 00:16:49.998
  • You could harvest only the center of your field.
  • 00:16:49.998 --> 00:16:52.534
  • You left the corners of the field that you own for the poor,
  • 00:16:52.534 --> 00:16:57.673
  • For other people to come and harvest.
  • 00:16:57.673 --> 00:17:01.477
  • Now, it was a principle of gleaning.
  • 00:17:01.477 --> 00:17:03.779
  • In other words, you don't take all the profits for yourself;
  • 00:17:03.779 --> 00:17:06.815
  • You share the profits with others.
  • 00:17:06.815 --> 00:17:09.318
  • Francis schaeffer said if corporations, and companies, and
  • 00:17:09.318 --> 00:17:12.654
  • Businesses would do that because they are christian, it would be
  • 00:17:12.654 --> 00:17:16.191
  • The strongest witness we could give to a pagan world.
  • 00:17:16.191 --> 00:17:19.561
  • What am i talking about?
  • 00:17:19.561 --> 00:17:21.430
  • There have been big banana companies, and big coffee
  • 00:17:21.430 --> 00:17:24.633
  • Companies gone down to central and south america for years, and
  • 00:17:24.633 --> 00:17:28.237
  • There, the people, the underclass in those countries
  • 00:17:28.237 --> 00:17:32.741
  • Have harvested-grown the coffee and the bananas and other
  • 00:17:32.741 --> 00:17:36.445
  • Products, and the big corporations in america have
  • 00:17:36.445 --> 00:17:40.816
  • Paid off all the politicians, and they have brought all the
  • 00:17:40.816 --> 00:17:44.186
  • Profits back over here for their companies and their
  • 00:17:44.186 --> 00:17:46.421
  • Corporations, and for ten, twenty, thirty, forty,
  • 00:17:46.421 --> 00:17:49.691
  • Fifty-maybe a hundred years, those peasants are just
  • 00:17:49.691 --> 00:17:52.928
  • As poor as they ever were!
  • 00:17:52.928 --> 00:17:56.598
  • What's wrong with that picture,
  • 00:17:56.598 --> 00:17:59.067
  • If we are leaders in christianity?
  • 00:17:59.067 --> 00:18:02.437
  • It is that certainly, people should be paid according
  • 00:18:02.437 --> 00:18:05.974
  • To their area of responsibility, but somehow,
  • 00:18:05.974 --> 00:18:08.510
  • In these central and south american countries,
  • 00:18:08.510 --> 00:18:10.646
  • There's only the real rich and the real poor.
  • 00:18:10.646 --> 00:18:12.681
  • There's no middle class because mainly, american corporations
  • 00:18:12.681 --> 00:18:18.287
  • Have gleaned and taken out all the profits and have not shared
  • 00:18:18.287 --> 00:18:22.624
  • With the people who did the work, and therefore,
  • 00:18:22.624 --> 00:18:24.760
  • Their lifestyle has not been uplifted.
  • 00:18:24.760 --> 00:18:27.429
  • That is an abomination to god, ladies and gentlemen!
  • 00:18:27.429 --> 00:18:30.065
  • (audience applauds).
  • 00:18:30.065 --> 00:18:32.968
  • Now i'm a capitalist -don't misunderstand me,
  • 00:18:32.968 --> 00:18:36.605
  • But i am saying this should be a part of a christian business.
  • 00:18:36.605 --> 00:18:40.142
  • Chick-fil-a-they operate like that.
  • 00:18:40.142 --> 00:18:42.511
  • Hobby lobby, they operate like that.
  • 00:18:42.511 --> 00:18:44.746
  • A lot of little businesses operate like that.
  • 00:18:44.746 --> 00:18:47.316
  • That's the way to operate.
  • 00:18:47.316 --> 00:18:48.650
  • If the boat rises, everybody in the boat goes up with
  • 00:18:48.650 --> 00:18:51.853
  • It proportionately to their
  • 00:18:51.853 --> 00:18:53.455
  • Contribution and their responsibility.
  • 00:18:53.455 --> 00:18:55.591
  • That is how we need to lead as christians in the market place.
  • 00:18:55.591 --> 00:19:00.929
  • (audience applauds).
  • 00:19:00.929 --> 00:19:02.264
  • Now, you see how these gifts work?
  • 00:19:02.264 --> 00:19:05.867
  • Not only in the church, enhancing the church,
  • 00:19:05.867 --> 00:19:07.936
  • But in all areas of life?
  • 00:19:07.936 --> 00:19:10.138
  • And the last gift mentioned is the gift of mercy.
  • 00:19:10.138 --> 00:19:14.309
  • It says we are to be merciful with cheer.
  • 00:19:14.309 --> 00:19:17.512
  • We gotta be cheerful people who have the gift of mercy.
  • 00:19:17.512 --> 00:19:20.048
  • Say, "what is that talking about"?
  • 00:19:20.048 --> 00:19:22.150
  • Well, you know, sometimes we hear someone who's been caught
  • 00:19:22.150 --> 00:19:24.987
  • In an unseemly thing, and you go and say, "oh, i'm so merciful.
  • 00:19:24.987 --> 00:19:30.092
  • I'm sympathetic with you, but it's about time you got caught!"
  • 00:19:30.092 --> 00:19:33.395
  • (audience laughs).
  • 00:19:33.395 --> 00:19:36.398
  • You, you, know, there, there can't be mercy with judgment;
  • 00:19:36.398 --> 00:19:39.268
  • There has to be mercy with cheer and encouragement.
  • 00:19:39.268 --> 00:19:41.837
  • Say, "man, i'm broken with you.
  • 00:19:41.837 --> 00:19:43.372
  • I want to be here. i want to help you.
  • 00:19:43.372 --> 00:19:44.973
  • I want to sympathize.
  • 00:19:44.973 --> 00:19:46.308
  • I want to get down there with you.
  • 00:19:46.308 --> 00:19:47.909
  • You know, you can get back up. you can recover."
  • 00:19:47.909 --> 00:19:50.145
  • That's the gift of mercy and compassion.
  • 00:19:50.145 --> 00:19:52.314
  • If you have that gift, it needs to be exercised.
  • 00:19:52.314 --> 00:19:54.416
  • The body of christ needs that gift.
  • 00:19:54.416 --> 00:19:57.252
  • So we look at all of these gifts that we have, and we see how we
  • 00:19:57.252 --> 00:20:01.690
  • All have a role in the church, and we have to go back to the
  • 00:20:01.690 --> 00:20:04.259
  • Question, "what would this church be like if everybody were
  • 00:20:04.259 --> 00:20:07.296
  • Like you, or everybody were like me"?
  • 00:20:07.296 --> 00:20:11.066
  • Scary, isn't it?
  • 00:20:11.066 --> 00:20:13.835
  • Therefore, we need to beter--
  • 00:20:13.835 --> 00:20:15.170
  • Determine what is your giftedness?
  • 00:20:15.170 --> 00:20:17.439
  • What is my giftedness?
  • 00:20:17.439 --> 00:20:20.909
  • And we need to utilize that gift in the kingdom of god,
  • 00:20:20.909 --> 00:20:24.946
  • Especially in this moment in history.
  • 00:20:24.946 --> 00:20:29.217
  • Kathy was 11 years old.
  • 00:20:29.217 --> 00:20:32.788
  • She went with her mother to the store and noticed the perfume
  • 00:20:32.788 --> 00:20:37.426
  • Her mother particularly liked.
  • 00:20:37.426 --> 00:20:39.761
  • But it was pretty expensive; but kathy waited and saved her money
  • 00:20:39.761 --> 00:20:44.299
  • From her allowance, and had a chance to go back to that store
  • 00:20:44.299 --> 00:20:48.036
  • And buy that special perfume for her mother and got a little
  • 00:20:48.036 --> 00:20:51.773
  • Faceted bottle to put the perfume in.
  • 00:20:51.773 --> 00:20:54.343
  • It was a little, sort of a specially shaped bottle, you
  • 00:20:54.343 --> 00:20:57.512
  • Know, sort of like a little, little, little pump-like look,
  • 00:20:57.512 --> 00:21:00.482
  • And she wrapped that perfume up in some beautiful,
  • 00:21:00.482 --> 00:21:03.885
  • Light-blue paper and found a satin ribbon and put on it.
  • 00:21:03.885 --> 00:21:06.755
  • I mean, it was a beautiful gift.
  • 00:21:06.755 --> 00:21:08.857
  • On her mother's birthday, all the presents were there, and her
  • 00:21:08.857 --> 00:21:11.626
  • Mother opened this one and that one, and she looked at that gift
  • 00:21:11.626 --> 00:21:14.529
  • From her daughter-11 year old daughter, kathy, and said,
  • 00:21:14.529 --> 00:21:17.799
  • "you know, i know what's in that one.
  • 00:21:17.799 --> 00:21:20.702
  • I'll open it later..."
  • 00:21:20.702 --> 00:21:22.871
  • And kathy was sort of disappointed, but, you know, a
  • 00:21:22.871 --> 00:21:25.440
  • Few weeks went by and she saw that little pink, that little
  • 00:21:25.440 --> 00:21:28.777
  • Uh, blue gift there on the counter in her mother's room and
  • 00:21:28.777 --> 00:21:31.313
  • Said, said, "mama, when are you gonna open my gift"?
  • 00:21:31.313 --> 00:21:34.416
  • She said, "oh, i know what's in it.
  • 00:21:34.416 --> 00:21:36.251
  • I'll open it later..."
  • 00:21:36.251 --> 00:21:38.720
  • And then suddenly kathy was 16, and she was running around,
  • 00:21:38.720 --> 00:21:42.391
  • And there was that same gift she gave when
  • 00:21:42.391 --> 00:21:44.526
  • She was 11 and said, "mom, i'm 16.
  • 00:21:44.526 --> 00:21:46.962
  • Why don't you open my gift"?
  • 00:21:46.962 --> 00:21:48.663
  • She said, "oh, i know what's in it.
  • 00:21:48.663 --> 00:21:50.599
  • I'll open it later..."
  • 00:21:50.599 --> 00:21:53.034
  • Years went by, and her mother died.
  • 00:21:53.034 --> 00:21:56.605
  • Kathy went back home, going through all her mother's things
  • 00:21:56.605 --> 00:21:59.341
  • And saw the gift she'd given as an 11 year old girl.
  • 00:21:59.341 --> 00:22:04.346
  • That little beautifully wrapped, light-blue bottle wrapped up
  • 00:22:04.346 --> 00:22:10.152
  • With perfume, and her mother never opened it.
  • 00:22:10.152 --> 00:22:15.424
  • She was tearful.
  • 00:22:15.424 --> 00:22:18.226
  • Why?
  • 00:22:18.226 --> 00:22:20.028
  • She knew her mother got to experience the fragrance that
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  • She knew would, her mother would have loved.
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  • She knew her mother had never got a chance to share that
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  • Fragrance with others around her, and she herself, kathy,
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  • Felt hurt and deprived because she'd never had the joy of
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  • Seeing her mother experience and use the gift that she'd so
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  • Carefully planned for, and saved for, and given to her,
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  • Because it had never been opened!
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  • Listen-listen!
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  • God has given every single one of us here a unique gift.
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  • If your gift is not used in the church,
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  • Nobody else can fill that gap.
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  • Nobody else can!
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  • Nobody else can...
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  • Discover what the gift is.
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  • Open up that gift.
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  • Maybe another one will be there.
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  • Try out this gift, and you'll discover that you're in the
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  • Orchestra of god, the body of the church, and you'll be part
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  • Of a music, and a message, and a mystery,
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  • And a magnificence that you never imagined!
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  • Open the gift!
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  • Discover your gift!
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  • We're transformed!
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  • Transformation leads to humility.
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  • Transformation discovers in the church there's unity,
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  • But there's diversity.
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  • We all have an instrument to play for god!
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  • And then finally we see that
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  • There is ministry in transformation.
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  • Discover your gift.
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  • If it's not opened, nobody else can play that part.
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  • What if everybody in the church were like you?
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  • What kind of church would we have?
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  • Male announcer: in the middle of life's darkest storm, there's
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  • Always the quiet promises of god that lie just beyond
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  • The turbulence.
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  • You can discover how to claim these promises in dr. young's
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  • Book "living under the rainbow."
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  • It's our gift to you with your support of the ministry
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  • This month.
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  • Dr. young: the rainbow is a comforting reminder of
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  • God's promises.
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  • Under the rainbow, our lives, families, and careers can become
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  • What god designed them to be.
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  • In my book "living under the rainbow," you will learn about
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  • The key promises god has made to us in his word, the bible, and
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  • We'll discover how we can claim them in our daily lives.
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  • Applying these promises leads not only to daily victory but
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  • Puts you and me on the path of a truly--life with significance.
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  • Announcer: to get a copy of "living under the rainbow" for
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  • Yourself or someone you love, call the number on your screen
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  • Or go online at winningwalk.org.
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  • Dr. young: let me tell you how i begin each day
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  • And end every day.
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  • I've done it for many, many years.
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  • When i roll out of bed, the first thing i do,
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  • I hit my knees.
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  • I call it knee-to-knee, or i call it a "self prayer" because
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  • You know my biggest problem?
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  • It's the same problem you have.
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  • It's spelled s-e-l-f.
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  • Isn't that the person you have the most difficulty with?
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  • It's my number one problem.
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  • Therefore, when i begin my day, i'm on my knees,
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  • My wife comes in, kneels with me,
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  • And i put my hand on the bed, and i pray a little prayer
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  • Revolving around self.
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  • It's an acrostic.
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  • And i just spell s-e-l-f.
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  • I start off and say, "lord, i surrender this day to you."
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  • And i talk about surrendering everything in my life to him.
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  • And then i talk about e, e--i surrender.
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  • And then that e comes up, and i empty myself.
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  • Whenever i'm full of self or selfishness,
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  • I start off by emptying so i will be fresh.
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  • Then i turn my hands up as i'm on my knees by my bed and i say,
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  • "oh, lord, fill me with your spirit.
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  • I surrender, i empty, and i love you,
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  • And now fill me with your spirit," self.
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  • That's where you start, and as we express our love to him and
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  • He fills us with our spirit, then i'll have a personal prayer
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  • That fits me and fits my wife or she prays.
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  • And then we say, "in jesus's name, amen."
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  • I do that every morning, i do it every night.
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  • I pray the "self prayer," the knee-to-knee prayer.
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  • First thing in the morning, i hit my knees.
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  • The last thing at night, i am on my knees,
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  • And i don't know how it works for anybody else,
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  • But that "self prayer," that knee-to-knee prayer is a good
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  • Way to begin every day because it gets self out of the way.
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  • It does.
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  • "surrender, empty, i love you, fill me with your spirit," just
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  • A little ritual that i think will help your day to start off
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  • With wings and end your day with praise.
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  • ♪♪♪
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