Ed Young - Fainting Goats

March 3, 2025 | S25:E53

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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Fainting Goats | March 3, 2025

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Pastor ed young: to what can we compare this generation?
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With that question in mind, i encountered something i had
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Never heard of before.
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There is a special category of goats, myotonic goats, and
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They're called fainting goats.
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Did you know that?
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And these goats--by the way, they have the finest cashmere of
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Any goat.
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By the way, cashmere comes only from goats.
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How many knew that? don't lie in church.
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How many already knew that?
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Cashmere comes--i didn't know that.
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But these fainting goats have the highest quality of cashmere,
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And cashmere is not a fur, it's hair.
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And they would harvest that hair from these goats, and cashmere
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Is three times warmer than wool--i mean, by wool, by
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Sheep's wool, because the word wool doesn't necessarily mean
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A sheep.
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It's just a matted part that they take off of certain
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Animals, different from hair and skin, et cetera.
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So, these fainting goats are unusual animals.
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You cannot herd them, they just won't herd.
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These goats, when a wolf comes or when a shepherd comes, they
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Don't know the difference, they just go stiff and faint--bam,
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They go down, stiff, bam, they're down.
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That's just how they operate.
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And, if the shepherd goes and wants to take a parasite off one
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Of them, they're frightened, bam, down.
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You can't herd them.
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They'll not be led.
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They don't know the difference in up and down, and they get
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Lost, and they're very unusual animals.
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Therefore, they're almost extinct.
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And they keep a few of them, and they put them into herds of
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Normal goats, and they use them--well, i'll tell you
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Exactly how they use them.
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When the wolves come, all the normal goats, they run away.
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But the fainting goats, they go, boo, bam.
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And that's what the wolves get to eat.
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It protects--they become a meal so the wolves will be satisfied
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And not pursue the rest of the goats.
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The rest of the goats, they have cashmere, but not near as
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Valuable as that you find on this particular breed of goats.
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I thought about that, and i knew this story, and i saw
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This question.
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With what can we compare this generation?
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And i think a pretty good comparison would be
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Fainting goats.
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We are a lot like those fainting goats, and i want you to
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See it biblically.
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Jesus here would say to us that fainting goats--that's you and
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I, that's our generation--they do not repent.
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Listen carefully, with that in mind, at our scripture to
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Matthew chapter number 11, if you would, beginning with
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Verse 20, "then he," jesus, "began to denounce the cities in
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Which most of his miracles were done,
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Because they did not repent."
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There's our word, remember, fainting goats do not repent.
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"woe to you, chorazin!
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Woe to you, bethsaida!
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For if the miracles had occurred in tyre and sidon which occurred
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In you, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth
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And ashes."
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Verse 22, "nevertheless i say to you, it will be more tolerable
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For tyre and sidon in the day of judgment than for you."
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What is jesus saying?
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Stay with me.
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Our question: what can we compare the generation with, our
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Generation, that generation?
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I think the fainting goats, fainting goats do not repent.
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By repent, we mean change, turn around, go in a different
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Direction, see danger that is coming and respond to it.
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They just flop, flop.
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That's the way a lot of us are, ladies and gentlemen, is, when
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We're confronted with truth, with a new life, with changes,
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We say, "you know, i'm just gonna stay this sos,
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Same old stuff.
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The status quo is good enough for me."
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And we refuse to repent and refuse to change.
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And jesus is saying, "that's what happened to these two
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Cities that i've spent so much time in."
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Bethsaida, chorazin, two cities there, he said, "i've
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Performed miracles.
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You've seen the blind being able to see, you've seen those who
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Were dead be brought back to life."
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And these cities are very close there to the mount of
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Beatitudes, they'd have heard the sermon on the mount, they'd
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Have heard the sermon on the plain.
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They had watched him, and they had watched what he did and what
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He said.
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Now notice something about jesus.
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Much about our lord is unique, but there's uniqueness here in
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That, what he said and what he taught, that is what he
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Lived up to.
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Find another major religious leader in one of the major
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Religions of the world, and you can see that it doesn't happen.
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He lived on the basis of what he taught.
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And here he has these two cities.
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He spent time there, teaching and leading and performing
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Supernatural signs.
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A miracle in the bible is a sign, it points you in the right
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Direction when you're going in the wrong direction.
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That's what the word repent is, isn't it?
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I'm going this way, i repent, i do an about face, i go in the
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Opposite way.
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That is repentance.
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He said, "you didn't repent."
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Jesus said, "if i'd spent as much time in tyre and sidon--"
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These are two phoenician cities, and they were pagan cities,
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Godless cities, immoral cities inhabited by corrupt people.
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Jesus said, "if they had seen in tyre and sidon the miracles i
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Performed, and if they've heard the teaching that you have
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Heard, let me tell you, they would have repented, and they
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Would still be on god's side."
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But he said, "you've heard, and you did not repent, therefore,
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Your judgment is being going to be more severe than those who
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Are pagans."
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By the way, there will be a time of judgment.
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Everybody says we like justice.
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In order for justice to take place in eternity, there has to
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Be judgment.
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And jesus is saying, "these godless cities are gonna be in
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Better shape than you who have had so much light and you
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Continue to walk in the darkness."
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That scares me.
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That really scares me, and it should scare all of us.
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So what do we compare this generation to?
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Fainting goats that do not repent.
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Also, something else.
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He talks about another town.
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He talks about capernaum, capernaum was
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Jesus's headquarters.
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And he goes on in the next verses, and he says, "all the
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Light that i have given to capernaum, the miracles you've
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Seen there, everything that's happened there," he says, "look,
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Capernaum, you're going to be judged more severely because
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You've continued--" to be a fainting goat.
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We'd say, continue to stay where you are, ho hum, you know, what
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New miracle can you do to for me today, you know?
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And he says, "it's gonna be severe judgment on capernaum
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Than is on sodom," the most godless city in existence.
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Jesus said, "sodom wouldn't have been under the judgment of god
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Had they heard the light and the truth that you have heard."
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So we see the importance of repentance.
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We cannot get to the point that we are so complacent, so
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Indifferent, that we continue to walk in darkness, when christ
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Has said, "i've given you all this truth.
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You can walk in light."
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So, fainting goats, they just stiffen up, stay where they
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Are--now, they didn't do anything bad, notice, there's no
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Indictment of any particular sin.
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They just didn't do anything.
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Yeah, they just, they just, oh, bam, fainting goat refused
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To repent.
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Also, we see, jesus says, "fainting goats--" if that's the
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Symbol, if that's the metaphor we're using for our generation--
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"they do not respond to revelation."
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What is revelation?
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It is truth.
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Look at verse 25, chapter 11, matthew, "at that time jesus
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Said, 'i praise you, father.'"
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This is a prayer of jesus.
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"'lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things
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From the wise and the intelligent and have revealed
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Them to infant.
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Yes, father, for this way was well-pleasing in your sight.'"
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What is he saying?
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He is saying in this prayer, he's saying, "this is the
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Father's way to speak to people.
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This is the way of truth."
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Let me tell you, a lot of people come to the point, "well, i want
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God to do this, or why did god do that?
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And i don't understand his working.
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I don't understand his uniqueness of his
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Salvation plan.
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I'm the way and the truth and the life.
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That's too exclusive for me.
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That's not inclusive enough for me."
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Listen, go back to isaiah 55, great, great verse, you ought to
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Have it marked in your bible.
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I'll paraphrase it, it says, "as the heavens are higher than the
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Earth," you with me?
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He said, "so my ways are higher than man's ways, and my thoughts
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Are higher than your thoughts."
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What's he saying?
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He is saying, "god is in control," ladies and gentlemen,
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He is sovereign, and i'll tell you a secret.
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He knows exactly what he's doing, he knows exactly what
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He's doing.
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So this is, the revelation comes, and he speaks to
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That revelation.
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Look what he says in verse 27, "all these things have been
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Handed over to me--" jesus speaking-- "by the father, and
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So no one knows the son except the father, nor does anyone know
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The father except the son, and anyone to whom the son wills to
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Reveal to him."
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He's saying, "this is the father's method of operation,
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This is the son's method of operation.
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You know jesus, you know the father, you know the father, you
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Know jesus."
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And he's saying, "here is a revelation i've given to you,"
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And still they're fainting goats, bam.
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They do not repent.
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They didn't respond to the revelation of god.
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"what's it going to take," jesus is saying, "to wake you up, to
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Move you out?"
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And god must say that about you and me all the time.
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He'll say, "what is it gonna take to get through to edwin?
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What's it gonna take to get through to
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Bill, to alice, to mary?
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What is it gonna take for them to repent and to change, for
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Them truly to understand the truth that i'm giving to them?"
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Gandhi, about a week or so before he died, a friend went to
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Him, and he knew that gandhi all of his life had been searching
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For god.
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And he went to him, he said, "have you found him?"
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Gandhi said, "no, i'm still searching."
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Gandhi was a god-fearing man, a great leader in the world, a
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Pacifist who led india out of the bondage of
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Foreign domination.
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But gandhi spent his whole life searching--ladies and
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Gentlemen, let me tell you difference between philosophy
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And theology.
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The philosopher is always looking for god, "i wanna
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Find god.
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I wanna find the summum bonum of life.
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I wanna find ultimate meaning."
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The bible teaches us, that's not the way it is.
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God is always looking for you and looking for me.
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God is searching us out.
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We just have to understand his presence, respond to the light
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That we have, and repent to things as we're walking in the
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Darkness, respond to the revelation that is there, the
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Truth of god in christ.
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If we do not, we are fainting goats.
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And you know what happens to feigning goats, if this is a
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Good symbol of our generation?
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This is a great tragedy.
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Flip over, if you would, to the passage on 'the unpardonable
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Sin,' whoa, a sin that will never be forgiven.
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People ask me periodically, "i think i've committed the
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Unpardonable sin."
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My open answer is, "one thing's for sure, you haven't if you're
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Asking me that question."
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Because look at what the unpardonable sin is.
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It's in matthew chapter 12, verse 30, following, jesus is
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Talking, "he who is not with me is against me, and he who does
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Not gather with me scatters."
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In other words, we just fall down, "i'm gonna stay here, i'm
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Gonna wait until lightning strikes."
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He said, "oh, you're against me."
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"therefore i say to you, any sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven
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People, but blasphemy against the holy spirit--" in other
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Words, speaking against the holy spirit--"shall not
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Be forgiven."
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Verse 32, "for whoever speaks a word against the son of man--"
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That's jesus--"it shall be forgiven him, but whoever speaks
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Against the holy spirit, it shall not be forgiven him,
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Either in this age or in the age to come."
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This is the unpardonable sin.
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It is when the holy spirit works in your heart and in your life,
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Trying to convict you and convince you and to bring us out
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Into the light, and we still conduct ourselves like
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Fainting goats.
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We don't repent, the truth comes, we don't repent, until
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Finally we get to the point, our hearts are so hardened, our
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Lives are so cold--go to romans chapter 1, there's a whole list
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Of sin.
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And, finally, paul, writing in romans, says, "god gave them up.
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God gave them over."
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Their hearts were so hardened, now they had a reprobate mind.
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There was no fertile ground by which the holy spirit could
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Convict and speak to their lives, speak truth in
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Their lives.
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And that's when we commit the unburnable sin.
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We no longer turn to christ, we no longer turn to forgiveness.
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We just are satisfied with, i, me, mine-mine--my way, my
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Idea, my insight--and we get increasingly
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Increasingly narcissistic.
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We get increasingly increasingly out of kilter with life.
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And all of a sudden the spirit of god convicts us and deals
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With us, but we don't feel it, we don't understand it.
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Our hearts are hardened, and we're lost.
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There's no forgiveness in time or in eternity.
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It's over, we're permanently a goat.
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When the judgment comes, when the sheep and the goats are
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Divided, we end up a goat.
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Now, but there's words of magnificent hope.
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And there in verse 28, 29, and 30 of chapter 11, goes, it says,
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"a fainting goat can be rescued."
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What's happened to us?
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We're in the darkness.
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And, when the lights go out, there's no hope for us.
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In the second world war, in the north atlantic, there was
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A vicious sea battle.
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A lot of the enemy ships were there and planes, and our ships
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Were there, a vicious battle.
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And finally, on one carrier, six airplanes took off, and they
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Were a part of the battle in the sky and the battle between
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Destroyers and other vessels in that area.
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And then suddenly got so severe that the carrier turned all the
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Lights off.
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The planes circling could not see to land, and they said,
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"just flash the light, and give us a chance to land."
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They said, "we can't take the risk because there are thousands
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Of people on board and many, many other planes.
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We can't take the risk."
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And so those six planes just flew out there til they ran out
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Of fuel and went to the sea, and all lives were lost, in order to
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Save thousands of lives on the carrier.
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Listen, when god turns out the light, when you turn out the
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Light, when there's no basis in which he can touch your heart--
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We reject the holy spirit, his conviction, his leadership--
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That is the unpardonable sin.
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But there is a rescue plan for all of this generation and that
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Generation of falling goats, fainting goats.
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What is it?
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Look at those verses i pointed out, the first one begins with
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The word 'come,' invitation, "come unto me all ye that labor
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And are heavy laden."
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Anybody here laboring with life?
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Anybody here heavy laden with life?
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It is a weight so heavy and so strong, and you say, "lord, i
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Wanna come to christ, i come in desperation."
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All ye that labor and are heavy laden.
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I read periodically, and you do, too, about those mudslides
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In california.
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You know, you say, what in the world happens?
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All of a sudden, mud just slides off the hill, and it brings
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Houses with it, it destroys everything, it totally covers
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Cars and automobiles.
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And these massive mudslides, what causes that, what happens?
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It's when the ground gets so saturated that even a little
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Shower would be just enough to start that mud sliding down
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In devastation.
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And then the whole land is destabilized.
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So, here you have, it is saturated and destabilized.
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I thought of that when i read 'heavy laden.'
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"come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden."
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They're saturated and destabilized.
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Anybody feeling saturated, destabilized?
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Destabilized means you lose your balance.
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You know, i'm just saturated.
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Jesus says, "come to me, and i will--" look at this--"give
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You rest."
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He gives us rest when we come to him.
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By the way, this rest is a peace with god.
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We get right with god, on the terms of christ, we have peace
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With god.
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It's fabulous to know.
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I'm not perfect, i've got a lot of warts, but, man, i've got
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God's peace.
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He says, "come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden,
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And i will give you rest."
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That's peace with god.
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Then he says a second stanza, it even goes deeper than that.
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He says, "take my yoke upon you--" the yoke of god, that's
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Just designed for you and me.
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You know what a yoke was, it was that wooden apparatus that they
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Would make and put around the head of an ox and team that with
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Another ox, and they would pull heavy weights together.
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Jesus says, "come and get yoked up with me, take my yoke
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Upon you."
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And he says, "learn of me--" we go to school with him.
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It's always scary to ask somebody to mentor you or to go
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And tell somebody to teach you how to do something because
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They'll discover we're not as smart as they thought we were.
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We're not as receptive as they thought we were.
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We're afraid that, we'll get under one of these teachers,
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That they will just sort of expose us.
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But jesus says, "come, take my yoke upon you and learn of me,"
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Get in my school.
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And he tells us, he says, "i am gentle and i am humble."
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Isn't that great?
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Have a teacher--i'll go to a teacher who's gentle and humble
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With me.
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They won't embarrass me, expose all of my flaws.
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He said, "come, take, learn," and he said, "then you will have
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Rest in your soul."
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We've already got the rest that means that we're right with god,
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Now we have rest in our soul.
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This means that we now have the rest of god.
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We have the peace of god.
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Peace with god, first rest.
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Peace of god, second rest.
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Anybody need that?
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Oh, we need that.
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Peace with god.
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Peace of god.
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And that's the appeal, and that's the invitation.
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And then there's that last little verse, which i
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Really love.
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He says, i'll just read it to be accurate, he said, "for my yoke
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Is easy and my burden is light."
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In the greek that means, "my yoke is well fitting."
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We get yoked up with jesus christ, let me tell you what,
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His yoke just fits us.
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Oh, it'll fit who you are.
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When i'm doing something that i really enjoy, and i can sweat
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And work in the sun and have a great time--when i do something
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I don't wanna do, like pull up weeds in the flower bed in the
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Same sun, the same--i am miserable.
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Why?
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This fits me, this doesn't fit me.
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Listen, to come to christ, it's not an overbearing thing.
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His yoke fits perfectly.
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It is exclusively tailored and designed to meet your life, your
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Needs, so you can fly away in this world and have a life that
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Really counts.
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You say, "well, i'm, i'm too old, i'm too young, i'm too set
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In my ways.
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You know, i'm just gonna get along and go along."
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Oh, no, you see, god shows off his greatest strength at the
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Point of mine and yours greatest weakness.
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When i'm weak, god get a chance to show off his strength, if i'm
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Yoked with him, if i'm yoked with him.
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You say, "well, how in the world does this operate?"
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Years ago, there was a camp for junior high kids, and this year
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The council invited billy to go.
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Now, billy was a special child-- sweet, kind, loving, gentle,
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But special.
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Didn't really go along with the other kids, but you just
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Couldn't upset him.
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He was teased all the time, laughed at, remember junior
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High, don't you, gang?
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We've been on both sides of that, all of us.
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But billy went to camp, and at camp they just teased him
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Unmercifully, but it didn't bother billy.
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You know, it didn't upset him at all.
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He was at camp with the kids, and he'd say, "which way is the
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Craft shop," and they'd point in the opposite direction.
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They loved teasing billy.
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And finally somebody signed billy's name up to do the
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Morning devotion.
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They had a little talk every morning at breakfast, and
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Different kids would sign up to give some kind of spiritual
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Talk, and they signed up billy.
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Billy didn't know it.
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Breakfast next day, and the counselor said, "billy has asked
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To speak today and do our devotion."
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Billy didn't know.
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All the kids just laughed and said, "watch this.
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There's no telling what billy is gonna say."
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Little billy got up, with his smile, all the giggling of the
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Junior high kids.
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And it took billy 2 1/2 minutes to say,
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"jesus loves me," and
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Then another 2 1/2 minutes for him to say,
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"i love jesus."
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That was it.
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And the room got so quiet, all those junior high kids, some of
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Them began to weep and to cry.
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And that was the camp when so many of those boys and girls
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Really came into a personal relationship with jesus christ
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That lasted for the rest of their lives.
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Years went by in that community, somebody would say, "well,
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Alice, when did you come to know jesus?"
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She said, "i was at camp when billy spoke."
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I was at camp when billy spoke, god shows off his strength when
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We get yoked up with him.
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Yeah, we come to him just the way we are.
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We come to him.
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We take up that yoke he's prepared for us.
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We sit at his feet, we learn from him, and then we have peace
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With god and the peace of god.
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And guess what?
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We are no longer fainting goats.
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It requires strength and balance and coordination--and time.
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I have found walking with god is no different.
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No one instantly becomes an overcoming christian.
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We must take those first timid steps, cling to the father's
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Hand before we can walk worthy of our calling as children of
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The king.
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Like all journeys, the winning walk requires the proper
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Equipment and preparation.
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By outfitting our lives with the word of god, we'll be able to
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Follow wherever the master leads.
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Pastor ed: proverbs 22:6 says, "train up a child in the way he
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Should go, and, when he is old, he'll not depart from it."
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There are two direction in which a child should go: the mega and
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The micro.
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The mega direction is towards god and his ways.
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The micro is the bent of the child.
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Every parent should be pointing their child toward god.
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That's the mega-mega.
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That's our priority.
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At the same time, we should be observing our kids to nurture
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Their personality, talents, and gifts--micro.
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Watch them, study them, listen to them.
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Now, i know, in my own life, each of my three sons were so
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Different growing up, and they're different today.
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God wants us to encourage the way he has wired them to grow,
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Your children, as i sought to do that with my sons.
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And, with the foundation of god's truth and encouragement of
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A loving family, we will help our kids to go off into the
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World, ready to soar for him, to become everything god designed
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Them to become.
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♪♪♪
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Ed Young - Fainting Goats

March 3, 2025 | S25:E53

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