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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Everything Has Meaning Under the SON | March 26, 2026
- Instead of nothing matters.
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- Everything matters because everything we've
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- Done, we've said will be called into account
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- Before god almighty in judgment.
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- Every little thing.
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- Did you get it?
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- A cup of cold water.
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- A kind word.
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- A vicious response.
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- Coldness when we should have been warm.
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- Unwilling to forgive.
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- We should be gracious.
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- Everything.
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- Big things, little things.
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- John
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- Chapter 14, jesus says,
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- Do not let
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- Stop it.
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- Do not let your heart be troubled.
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- You believe in god.
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- Believe also in me.
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- What he saying?
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- He said, if you believe in god,
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- Yes, you believe also in me.
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- Jesus. yes.
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- Then if your heart is troubled,
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- Stop it. why?
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- Because if we turn our heart over to god,
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- Turn our heart over to jesus.
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- He empowers us to handle,
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- To go through, to put behind us
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- And to walk with him now and forever.
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- Therefore, if we keep on harboring,
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- Feeling, lamenting, crying, moaning,
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- Going into depression, questioning, challenging,
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- Then deeper and deeper and we have a troubled heart.
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- He says, stop it, because god and christ,
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- I can handle it.
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- Exit.
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- Jesus.
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- John, chapter 14,
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- Verse number one.
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- In one sense,
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- That is what solomon has been telling us
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- As we have walked through 11 chapters of that book.
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- He's saying, if you're trying to find
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- Meaning, significance,
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- A life of value, a life
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- That has eternal rewards,
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- You're not going to find it under the sun
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- And parallel living,
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- One dimensional living.
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- If you are reckoning your life,
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- Figuring out life's problems, and challenging
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- Using only material, we get from us under the sun
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- In horizontal living.
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- Stop it.
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- You're not going to find a life that has significance,
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- That has meaning.
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- That's worth a hoot.
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- Paraphrase.
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- He said, look.
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- Stop trying to figure out life
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- With human, rational hands.
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- You will never do it.
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- It's never been done.
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- It never will be done.
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- He said, stop trying to do it.
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- And here we have solomon now, walking through these years
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- Telling us how he did everything went everywhere.
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- Cuttlefish.
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- Everything became the wealthiest man on this earth.
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- The most gifted, talented man on this earth.
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- But he got down to the bottom.
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- He said, in these 11 chapters we studied.
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- Nothing matters.
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- Summarize 11 chapters.
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- Nothing matters.
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- You're out of hitler.
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- You're the apostle paul.
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- No difference.
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- You're foolish.
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- You're wise.
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- Doesn't matter.
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- And he says nothing matters.
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- And that's where he leaves us now.
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- To be sure, he's had a little flickering
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- Of god as we studied it.
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- But he comes the conclusion.
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- He says it's all vanity.
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- It's all.
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- It's all smoke.
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- All of life.
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- And you know, he's exactly right.
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- If you and i live our life
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- On the basis of everything we see, touch, feel
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- On the basis of materialism and secularism,
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- In this dimension, nothing really matters.
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- It really doesn't.
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- But then he comes to chapter 12,
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- The last chapter of the book,
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- And we're staggered
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- Because he starts off
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- And he says, well, by the way,
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- They are 2 or 3 things that matter.
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- So i don't know about you.
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- I got on tiptoe.
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- I said, my goodness, here's a guy who spent all this time
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- Telling us that nothing matters.
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- Now he says, 2 or 3 things matter.
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- What are those things that really matter?
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- Look at the beginning of chapter 12.
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- And by the way, chapter 12, verse one through verse
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- Eight tells us that time matters.
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- Timmy. time.
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- And look what he says.
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- Remember also your creator
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- In the days of your youth.
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- The word remember here.
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- Does it mean i make a list?
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- Here's all the groceries i'm to supply.
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- This is what i'm to do.
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- These are birthdays i need to remember.
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- That's not what this word means.
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- The word remember, usually
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- In the hebrew language means listen.
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- To act decisively for someone else.
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- Nail that down.
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- To remember means you act decisively
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- On behalf of somebody else.
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- So what is solomon saying?
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- He says, remember, act decisively.
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- Own the the creator.
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- By the way, god is the only creator
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- That has ever created anything because he is
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- The only creator, not going to do for anybody. ama.
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- And he created everything we see, everything
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- That has been.
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- Everything is everything that we will be.
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- It's called ex nihilo.
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- He created out of nothing.
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- Solomon says,
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- Act decisively in your life.
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- Remember the creator when
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- You act decisively as far as god is concerned.
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- He says, while you're young.
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- I've talked to so many people
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- Who are in their latter years about christ,
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- And they lived a totally humanistic, secular life.
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- Maybe they were good. maybe they're evil.
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- Maybe they had a mixed bag.
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- Maybe they thought they were going to do
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- Enough, given enough to get to heaven.
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- But i've talked to about god in christ and about grace,
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- About being a christian.
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- And so many of them have said, oh, yes, i want that.
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- And they've received christ.
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- But so many of them, they had lived
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- So long in the far, far country away from god,
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- Even though now they had gone back home.
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- They had trouble changing, adapting
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- To the lifestyle of someone who walks with the almighty.
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- There was jaggedness there.
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- There was a crust in his.
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- There.
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- There's that was a language there, a manner of thinking
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- There that is so difficult when your life is set
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- In old age to let god in christ
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- Do all the changing that's necessary.
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- So very wisely,
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- Solomon says, remember,
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- Act decisively, decisively.
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- Remember, on the creator own god,
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- Do business with him while you're young.
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- Most of us become a christian when we're young.
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- How many of you here became a christian before you were 30?
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- Would you lift your hand?
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- I rest my case.
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- Remember, act
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- Decisively on the basis of god your own, your creator on god.
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- Respond to him while you're young.
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- That's the first thing that solomon says that matters.
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- 11 chapters.
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- Nothing matters, he said that matters.
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- Then he said, the next thing is matters is the aging process.
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- And he gives us some beautiful, sometimes tragic, sometimes
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- Humorous pictures of getting old.
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- Look at them here.
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- He said, verse two.
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- He said verse one, first of all the years
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- Draw near when you will say, i have no delight in them.
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- Where you getting old and decrepit?
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- Verse two
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- He said, before the sun and the light,
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- And the moon and the stars are darkened.
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- The clouds return after the rain.
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- He's talking about we slow down mentally.
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- That's a part of the aging process.
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- Verse three in the day that the watchman
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- Of the house tremble and mighty men stoop.
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- That's our legs, that's our arm.
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- Our watchman. we tend to stoop.
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- And our legs aren't as confident as they once were.
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- That's a part of their process.
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- The grinding ones stand idle because they are few.
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- This is your teeth.
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- My teeth?
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- Don't develop that.
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- And those who look through the windows grow dim.
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- This is our eyesight,
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- Man. a couple of years ago, i took a woman in our church
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- Who was 103, a big print bible.
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- And, she said, i don't need this bible.
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- I don't need that big print.
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- And i went back and found her a bible.
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- The print was about that big.
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- And she says, i can read every word of it.
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- She is the exception.
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- By the way, she's now, i say 106
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- And active and strong.
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- And if she doesn't win and bingo
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- About every fourth day, she really gets anyway.
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- When talking about your eyes, our dyes get dimmer.
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- Furthermore, men are afraid of high place
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- And terrors on the road.
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- I can't drive at night either.
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- And the almond.
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- The almond tree blossoms.
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- White hair.
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- The grasshopper drags himself along.
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- That's the whole body.
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- And the canterbury is ineffective.
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- That's a sexual drive for man.
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- Goes to his eternal home where mourners go by street.
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- He's saying, hey, remember,
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- Remember your youth.
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- Your youth matters.
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- Remember the aging process.
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- Then he says, death is going to come.
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- Remember him.
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- Act decisively on the basis of god before.
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- And about.
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- The silver cord is broken.
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- The golden bowl is crushed.
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- The picture by the well is shattered.
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- And the with the system is is crushed.
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- That your mind perhaps a stroke.
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- And your heart does not function.
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- And he gets the.
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- And he says vanity of all.
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- Vanity says solomon.
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- All is vanity.
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- All does not have any value, any meaning,
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- Any significance in life.
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- But he says, i'll tell you what does matter.
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- Use the aging process and death.
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- Then he says, that's the first thing that matters.
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- But he says it's the second thing that matter.
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- And you'd be surprised at this.
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- It's words. words.
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- Look at verse nine.
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- In addition to being a wise man,
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- The preacher solomon also taught the people knowledge.
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- And he pondered,
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- And he searched out and arranged many proverbs.
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- He looked at some, 13,000 of them.
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- He picked out those that were most relevant.
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- The preacher sought to find delightful words
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- And the right words of truth correctly.
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- Solomon has written down words of truth.
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- Let me tell you something.
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- Somebody who is secular.
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- Somebody who has no belief in god.
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- They enjoy the book of ecclesiastes.
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- A child takes their
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- First step unsteady.
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- Unsure.
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- Reaching for a father's hand.
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- No one is born knowing how to walk.
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- It takes training, strength.
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- Balance. time.
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- Walking with god is no different.
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- Like all journeys, walking the winning
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- Walk requires the proper equipment and preparation.
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- By outfitting our lives with the word of god,
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- We will be able to follow where the master leads.
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- Psalm 119 says, your word is a lamp
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- Unto my feet and a light under my path.
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- God doesn't rush the journey.
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- He lights the next step
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- In the winning walk.
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- Doctor ed young shares practical, biblical guidance
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- To help you develop the strength and spiritual
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- Balance needed for a steady, daily walk with christ.
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- If you're ready to grow stronger in your faith,
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- Call the number on your screen
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- And request your copy of the winning walk today
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- And begin walking confidently with him.
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- And we see
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- Our solomon carefully chose his words.
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- Words matter.
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- Verse 11.
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- The words of wise man are like gourds.
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- They're like that which gourd?
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- Us and masters of these collections are like
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- Well driven nails, and they are given by the shepherd.
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- What does he say?
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- He's saying words are our goads.
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- They goad us.
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- What is a goad?
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- A goad is a sharp stick.
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- Would you take an animal and you would stick him
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- Not to hurt him seriously, but to make him move on.
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- Or you take.
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- You take a goad
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- And you would stick an animal to keep him on the path.
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- This is what words do.
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- This is what the word of god does for us.
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- It's a god saying, hey, don't just stay there.
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- Move on out. it's your go.
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- You're wandering off the past that go back on the path.
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- Words are goads.
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- And also words are more than goads.
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- They stimulate us.
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- They inspire us.
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- They bring life back into us.
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- And look what else he says.
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- Very wonderful things, he says.
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- They are driven by shepherds, and they are nails.
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- See it there.
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- What happens?
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- We have the word of god in us, and it becomes
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- A nail that nails down in our minds.
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- Nails done in our heart.
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- So many times
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- I start to do something and bang a verse of scripture
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- With papa about oh my goodness, what in and
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- And see these proverbs, these sayings, the truth of god.
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- They they goad us.
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- They move us along.
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- They keep us on the path and they nail truth down
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- Within you and within me.
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- That's what their nails.
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- And who is the one who
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- Uses the god?
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- Who is the one who drives the nail?
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- It is the shepherd who is the shepherd.
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- It's the lord. it's god.
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- It's god as the good shepherd, directing your life
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- And my life as we live under the sun.
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- If we recognize him who is above the sun.
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- So we see words are important.
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- And then he talks about many words here.
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- Look at this.
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- Verse 12.
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- But beyond this, my son, he warned,
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- The writing of many books is endless.
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- Excessive devotion and books is wearying
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- To the body.
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- So many times
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- We are looking for shiny objects.
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- That's a syndrome.
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- I want some that shine.
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- Some that glows.
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- I want some that encourages.
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- I want something that brings about a palsy.
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- Right? i'm looking for excitement.
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- I'm exploring all all the realms of hedonism.
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- It's a sin looking for shiny objects.
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- And we say, i want to find god and know god.
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- But i've got more questions.
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- I haven't looked at every religion in the world yet.
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- I haven't studied all the philosophical truths yet.
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- And oh, anytime we have an answer,
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- These people, they always have another question.
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- And here's another answer. here's another question.
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- And solomon said, you can spend all your life questions
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- And answers and question answers and never land.
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- Never make a decision.
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- There's a time to ask questions about god and life and space,
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- And there's a time to receive divine answers
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- And respond to god and what he means about life.
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- That is what solomon is saying.
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- Don't spend all your time speculating somewhere.
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- You have to respond to truths.
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- And he says that matters.
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- Time matters while you're young.
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- Aging process that's will come.
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- Time matters.
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- And then he moves on.
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- He says, let me tell you what else matters.
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- Look at that verse.
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- He says in verse number
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- 13, the conclusion
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- When all has been heard
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- Is fear. god
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- Is there. what matters.
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- Worship.
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- There we are.
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- Worship.
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- Worship in all god and adoration of god.
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- Listening to god. take a time out with god.
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- Worship.
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- Worship. worship.
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- Worship matters.
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- Time matters. words matters.
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- Worship matters.
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- And then he says. look.
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- What else matters? morality.
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- He says, keep the ten commandments.
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- Keep his commandments because they applies to every person.
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- Literally, that phrase mean when we worship
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- And we're moral and keep the commandments,
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- We become whole that the holy everybody becomes whole.
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- We're broken.
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- We have poles a whole year, and now we become whole
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- And complete. that's what happens.
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- Man, listen, we worship
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- And we have clean, clean living in our lives.
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- We obey in christ commandment.
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- We become whole people and that matters.
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- Time matters.
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- Words matter.
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- Worship matters.
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- Morality matters.
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- And then i want you to look to this last verse
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- That we're studying.
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- This summarizes the whole book, but it staggers me.
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- Verse 14, for god
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- Will bring every act to judgment.
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- Say judgment
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- To judgment.
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- Everything which is hidden, whether it is good
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- Or evil.
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- Three major judgments in the bible.
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- First of all, there is a judgment
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- Of heaven.
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- Revelation 20.
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- Great white throne, the judgment of those
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- Who did not believe, those who are not christians.
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- There is a judgment in heaven.
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- There's a judgment on earth.
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- Matthew 25.
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- This is a judgment of all the nations, the sheep
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- And the goat.
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- Judgment on earth.
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- There's a judgment in.
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- And this is a judgment of christians and believers,
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- Said corinthians five.
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- That's alone eons one four and many other places
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- We will be called into account before god.
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- Therefore, everybody will be judged.
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- Everybody will stand before the almighty.
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- Everybody will be there before the throne of god
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- And the throne of jesus christ.
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- What does that mean?
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- It means everything matters
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- Instead of nothing matters.
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- Everything matters because everything we've
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- Done, we've said will be called into account
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- Before god almighty in judgment.
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- Every little thing.
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- Did you get it?
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- A cup of cold water.
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- A kind word.
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- A vicious response.
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- Coldness when we should have been warm.
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- Unwilling to forgive.
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- We should be gracious.
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- Everything.
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- Big things, little things.
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- Our motives. why did you do that?
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- Why did you preach that sermon?
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- Oh, why?
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- Why did you go?
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- Motives. everything.
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- Good, bad, indifferent.
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- That's been done in your life.
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- In my life. hypocrisy in general.
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- Everything big little will be
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- Brought before god in judgment.
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- Therefore, everything about your life,
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- Everything about my life matters.
- 00:22:17.025 --> 00:22:19.728
- So whatever solomon's been saying, nothing matters.
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- He got to the end and say, hey,
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- There's going to be
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- A time of accounting there for everything in your life.
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- In my life matters.
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- Now, that old earth frightened us
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- And scare us beyond belief.
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- Except.
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- You see, god looks at everybody here.
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- He doesn't see mary
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- And joe
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- And david
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- And alice.
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- He doesn't see you.
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- He doesn't see me.
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- He looks at you.
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- He looks at me and says,
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- You know what your name really is?
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- You know what your name really is?
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- She had an air.
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- The one whom god loves.
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- And therefore, because
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- He has loved us to himself and we've received
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- Jesus christ, will we stand before that judgment bar?
- 00:23:17.786 --> 00:23:21.690
- We will see the eyes of love, and we'll see eyes of love
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- And response.
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- How in the world did this happen?
- 00:23:27.128 --> 00:23:29.297
- Because when we and jesus christ
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- Listening, when you go to the cross,
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- You don't look up there and say, you know,
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- I wonder how how tall that cross is.
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- Wonder how high it is.
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- No, go for the cross here and say,
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- You know, i wonder how long those arms are on that cross.
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- No, no.
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- Go for the cross. you don't say.
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- You know, i wonder how much the cross weighs.
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- Now go for the cross.
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- We say i wonder if that cross is high enough
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- To reach to heaven.
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- I wonder if those arms are long enough
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- To include somebody like me.
- 00:24:15.477 --> 00:24:18.346
- And i wonder if that cross weighs enough
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- To tip the scales of forgiveness
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- And grace and justice in my favor.
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- Because, you see, when we've gone before that
- 00:24:28.423 --> 00:24:30.525
- Cross, we don't fear judgment
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- Because we
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- Know jesus christ has taken
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- All the garbage, all the little things
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- And big things
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- In your life and in my life, and which we struck out,
- 00:24:43.405 --> 00:24:47.008
- In which we fumbled, in which we failed.
- 00:24:47.008 --> 00:24:49.978
- And he has taken all of that there.
- 00:24:49.978 --> 00:24:52.547
- And jesus was judged on your behalf
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- And on my behalf,
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- Because god looks on us as the denier one whom he loves,
- 00:24:57.285 --> 00:25:01.456
- And therefore judgment will be for those in christ
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- A moment of celebration and joy and admiration.
- 00:25:04.693 --> 00:25:09.197
- That is the christian life.
- 00:25:09.197 --> 00:25:17.405
- Your word is a lamp to my feet,
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- A light into my path.
- 00:25:21.543 --> 00:25:23.912
- Notice the promise in that verse.
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- A lamp for my feet i can see right here.
- 00:25:26.348 --> 00:25:29.150
- A light for your path.
- 00:25:29.150 --> 00:25:30.719
- We can see out there.
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- Not just inspiration.
- 00:25:33.054 --> 00:25:34.856
- For a moment, but guidance for a lifetime.
- 00:25:34.856 --> 00:25:40.195
- The christian life
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- Was never meant to be lived casually,
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- But it is a walk, a daily, intentional,
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- Fateful walk with the lord jesus christ.
- 00:25:49.537 --> 00:25:53.141
- That's the heartbeat of this book.
- 00:25:53.141 --> 00:25:55.944
- The winning walk in his pages, i share practical,
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- Biblical principles that will help you cultivate
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- A consistent devotional life, applying god's truth
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- In the practical realities of everyday living.
- 00:26:07.622 --> 00:26:11.059
- This isn't about religion.
- 00:26:11.626 --> 00:26:13.728
- It's about relationship.
- 00:26:13.728 --> 00:26:15.664
- It's about learning to trust god step by step
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- And stay in step with our lord.
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- The christ.
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- So i encourage you to call the number on your screen
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- And request your copy of the winning walk.
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- Do it today.
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- And then we begin walking victoriously,
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- One step at a time.
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- Thank you
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- For being a part of the winning old family.
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- Don't let this just be something you've watched.
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- Let it be something that touches your heart in life
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- And say, i need to deal with that.
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- I need to move away from that.
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- I need to move into that area.
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- Open your bible.
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- Reflect upon what we stood and ask the lord jesus christ
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- And his holy spirit to shape your heart
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- Through his divine truth.
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- I'll see you soon.
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- Right here
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- On the winning walk.
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- Family.
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