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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - The Father | March 19, 2026
- The hero is not the prodigal son.
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- We saw the parable of the prodigal son.
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- No, it's the father.
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- It's the father.
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- The hero was the shepherd.
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- The hero was the woman.
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- Shepherd. find the sheep.
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- Woman going, father going out.
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- When he saw that son, when he was yet a great way
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- Off, he ran.
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- When we align our hearts with god's word.
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- Something powerful begins to happen.
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- If you've never done that, you.
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- You'll be stunned.
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- Our perspective changes when we get in the bible.
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- We discover the bible is a rock.
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- It's not a marshmallow.
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- Our priorities shift
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- And our peace increases day by day.
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- Our spiritual life is not meant to be.
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- Live one day a week. it's meant to be.
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- Live every day, every hour, every step.
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- And it works.
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- Today we're going to explore what it means to cultivate
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- A daily walk with god, a faith
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- That is steady and deeply rooted in biblical truth.
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- So welcome to the waiting world.
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- Family. welcome.
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- We're glad you're here.
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- Is anything up there?
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- Is anything out there?
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- Is there something
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- Like us yet
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- Beyond us, more than us?
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- That can ask
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- In millions of different ways
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- By people all through history.
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- Is there another?
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- Is there
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- Life in the house of life?
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- Gee studied kennedy,
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- One of the great men of the last generation,
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- Tells of a moment in his life
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- When he was out by the sea on a more.
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- It was night, and all he could hear
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- Was the crashing of the waves on the cliff,
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- And he looked up in the starry heavens,
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- A myriad of stars,
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- And he said he felt a presence.
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- He felt an another there, and
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- And he said he wanted to
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- Shout.
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- Who goes there?
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- But he said, i was afraid.
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- I didn't know,
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- But i knew this presence was there.
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- He said i felt like that again
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- When i was in no man's land during the war,
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- And i was in a trench
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- Between the lines.
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- He said i saw a shadowy figure moving,
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- And i wanted to ask who goes there?
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- And he said, if i did that, i did not know if
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- I would be answering the bullet
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- Or the reply of a friend
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- Was silence.
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- But he said, there by the sea.
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- And that more i got my guts up, and i got courageous enough.
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- And i shouted out,
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- Who goes there?
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- And he said, i received an answer
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- That absolutely changed my life.
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- Who goes there?
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- An officer was wounded.
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- He was in the hospital, and a young chaplain went to
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- See him and
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- He began to speak with him.
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- And a severely wounded man says, padre,
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- I want to ask you a question.
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- What is god like?
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- He said, when i go to a new battalion,
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- The first thing i ask the people there,
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- What is the colonel like?
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- And he said,
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- God almighty is the colonel of all of humanity.
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- And, padre, i want you to tell me what is god like?
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- Big question.
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- People have asked it through the ages
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- And then we have
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- Jesus.
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- Jesus,
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- Who goes there
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- And his answer.
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- Father,
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- Father.
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- A personal answer.
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- You say, well, that's a human word, by the way.
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- That's all we have until agers come and ride
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- Some other kind of supernatural dictionary.
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- All we have is human words.
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- And as jesus who goes there, he said, father.
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- Now, some of us
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- May have a problem with that division.
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- What kind of dad?
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- What kind of father you had, what kind of father i had?
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- I've got a problem with it.
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- In some ways,
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- From i was a child all the way through
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- Approaching adolescence.
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- My dad and i were buddies. pals.
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- I was with him wherever he went.
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- We were close and he played with me.
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- He built things for me. we worked together.
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- But when adolescence came, something happened.
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- I don't know what it was.
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- And my father moved away from me.
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- He was as generous as he could be, but
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- The relationship was broken,
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- Totally severed, and it was severed
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- All the way through until he left this earth.
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- I don't know what happened.
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- There's a problem with a lot of people.
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- God is like a father.
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- Someone said, i certainly hope not.
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- But it is a
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- Father who was like the father of the prodigal.
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- The father, a practical, was a
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- Mother, a father.
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- Did you know that?
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- We see the feminine characteristic in god.
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- In those days you remember
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- When the prodigal decided to come home?
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- In those days, the father would sit at home.
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- He'd wait for that prodigal
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- To come back and beg for forgiveness.
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- And the mother would run out and meet the prodigal
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- Coming back.
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- But in this son it was the father who ran
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- To meet that returning son.
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- And the father went out.
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- And the father who said, put a robe on him,
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- Choose a ring,
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- Kill the fatted calf.
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- He's dead, he's alive.
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- He's lost, he's found.
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- That would be what a mother would do.
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- And kissing that son as a prodigal father did.
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- And so therefore we have
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- In the role of the father there a motherly father.
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- Oh, that's that's the picture of god.
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- The picture we have here
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- In luke chapter 11, the hero is not the prodigal son.
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- We saw the parable of the prodigal son.
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- No, it's the father.
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- It's the father.
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- The hero was the shepherd.
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- The hero was the woman.
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- Shepherd. find the sheep.
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- Woman going, father going out.
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- When he saw that son, when he was yet
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- A great way off, he ran.
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- That is a beautiful picture
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- Of how god operates in your life.
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- In my life, he sees us coming home to him.
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- He will run to meet you every single time.
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- Our father
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- I must be about my father's business,
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- The lord god almighty.
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- Father, the creed says
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- So we see that god is like a father.
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- And then we understand something about our father
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- In that god is father sometimes is lonely,
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- Sometimes gets lonesome.
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- That happens.
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- There's a prodigal
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- That certainly happened
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- To prodigals relationship with his dad.
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- When he gathered all this stuff and took his inheritance
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- And left.
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- I can assure you that father was lonesome.
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- He wanted a relationship with the son.
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- And anybody here who's a father.
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- You understand that?
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- Your kids grow up and they leave
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- And they go to the army. they go to college,
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- And they suddenly you were close to them.
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- And now there's this
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- Little girl and man, she takes priority over you.
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- Dad, i don't care what you think.
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- And then all of you see their friends
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- And and there's activities and there's interest.
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- And all of a sudden
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- The kids begin to grow up and move away
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- And have new thoughts and new ideas.
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- By the way, that's the way it should be.
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- That's what we do as parents.
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- By the same token, we miss them.
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- We'd like to keep them there, you know, all the time under
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- Our wings, under our party, under our our provisions
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- That that's that that's the father.
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- We never think about
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- God being lonely for us, but he is
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- Because he made us to have fellowship with him,
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- And we are
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- Equipped to have fellowship with the almighty father.
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- And when we do not engage in that fellowship,
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- God gets lonely
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- And suddenly we feel a distance
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- From god, and god feels a distance from us.
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- And that distance sometimes grows greater.
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- And greater and greater.
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- The father god
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- Gets lonely, gets lonely.
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- Also the father god
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- Not only gets lonely, but the but the father.
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- God gets disappointed.
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- Yeah.
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- Just like we look at our children
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- And we let them go and give them rope and
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- And we see they make poor choices.
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- Poor decisions,
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- And we bring them back in, and we give them rope,
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- And they make some good choices,
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- And then they make some poor decisions, and
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- And we get disappointed, do we not?
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- We see what could have been, what should have been,
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- What ought to be.
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- And we ask ourselves, what did i do wrong?
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- Where did i mess up?
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- What was i to aggressive to passive?
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- God gets disappointed.
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- He has. sara, when you're life.
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- My life in productive, he said, i've come.
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- You might have life
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- And you might have it abundantly overflowing.
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- How do we miss that?
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- We might have
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- Joy, meaning, significance, value.
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- Be creative. move out.
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- How do we miss that?
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- Certainly god gets disappointed.
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- A lot of fathers and mothers gets a business.
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- Morning.
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- Say, man,
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- If they'd only made this choice if they hadn't hadn't
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- Had chose this person for a friend
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- If they hadn't married this one.
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- And we get disappointed.
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- God gets disappointed in us.
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- And behind all this, father
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- Also this god is all powerful.
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- He is omnipotent
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- And lord.
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- He's like, well, god can do anything.
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- Do you really believe that that's not true?
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- God cannot do anything because god has limited himself
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- When he brought life to you and life to me.
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- Because we have the ability to choose,
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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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- 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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- I believe in god the father.
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- Lord god almighty, says the creed
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- Almighty.
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- We talk about power.
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- We talk about the cross.
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- That's so confusing.
- 00:13:43.412 --> 00:13:44.813
- I dare say i could go around this room
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- And stand you up and say, tell me there's power
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- In the cross.
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- Oh, yes, there's power in the ghost.
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- Tell me why the cross is so powerful.
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- Hello.
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- I was crucified with christ.
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- Nevertheless, what in the world is that mean?
- 00:14:01.330 --> 00:14:04.366
- We need to understand that.
- 00:14:04.967 --> 00:14:07.369
- First of all, we better define power.
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- Power is the ability
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- To accomplish purpose.
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- Got it?
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- If you have the ability
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- To accomplish purpose, you have power.
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- What is god's purpose?
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- What does he want to accomplish with your life and my life?
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- Number one, he wants us to be saved.
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- I like the word salvaged.
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- He wants you need to be restored
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- For the purpose for which we were made.
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- Number one.
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- Number two, we wants you and me to have a clean heart.
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- A new heart,
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- A new heart to make good choices.
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- And he wants us also to be able to say,
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- Not my will, but thy will be done.
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- He wants us to understand that
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- God's way is better than your way.
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- Our my way, and how
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- Stubborn and slow we are to pick up on that.
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- Well, god, i know you will heal this one.
- 00:15:05.327 --> 00:15:07.696
- Oh, i know you'll do this.
- 00:15:07.696 --> 00:15:09.498
- I know you'll do that.
- 00:15:09.498 --> 00:15:10.799
- Know his will is always
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- Better and greater than our will.
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- And that's the reason we look
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- To the cross and say it is the power of god.
- 00:15:20.209 --> 00:15:23.946
- Jesus came in the world.
- 00:15:24.480 --> 00:15:27.416
- Who is jesus?
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- Well, he's the son of god.
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- He's the incarnation.
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- He is god with skin on.
- 00:15:32.788 --> 00:15:36.492
- Jesus is god with skin on.
- 00:15:37.059 --> 00:15:41.296
- And therefore we talk about the power of the cross.
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- If you have your bibles,
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- Look at first corinthians chapter number one.
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- Let's see why the cross, how the cross is the power of god.
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- We've been singing about it, talking about it here, and yet
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- Do we understand it's profound.
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- Paul writing first corinthians
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- Chapter 118
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- For the message across.
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- Is foolishness to those who are perishing,
- 00:16:10.059 --> 00:16:12.961
- But to us who are being saved.
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- Salvage. it is the power of god.
- 00:16:16.098 --> 00:16:18.901
- There it is.
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- The cross is the power of god.
- 00:16:19.568 --> 00:16:21.804
- Now look at verse 20.
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- Where is the wise?
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- Where is the scribe?
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- Where is the disputer of this age?
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- Has not god made foolish the wisdom
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- Of the world for sense?
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- And the wisdom of god?
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- The world through wisdom did not know god.
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- It please god through the foolishness of the message
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- Preached to save those who believe.
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- Verse 22.
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- Listen, for the jews requested a sign,
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- And the greeks seek after wisdom.
- 00:16:51.667 --> 00:16:54.269
- But we preach christ crucified to the jews.
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- A stumbling block to the greeks foolishness.
- 00:16:56.972 --> 00:17:01.043
- But to those who are called both jews and greeks,
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- Christ, the power of god and the wisdom of god.
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- Okay.
- 00:17:10.719 --> 00:17:14.123
- Jesus is god with human flesh on
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- To prove that to the greeks
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- Had used wisdom greek, our roman world.
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- They wanted use intelligence.
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- They wanted to use wisdom, rational thinking.
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- That's what
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- The greeks, the romans, therefore, were all about.
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- You convince me
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- With wisdom, jesus, that you are indeed god incarnate.
- 00:17:31.940 --> 00:17:35.744
- And he did some of that in his teachings, did he not?
- 00:17:35.744 --> 00:17:38.747
- How profound the teaching of jesus, the wisdom.
- 00:17:38.747 --> 00:17:42.284
- But they weren't convinced.
- 00:17:42.885 --> 00:17:44.686
- Now, the jews, to convince them, i need a sign.
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- We look at the old testament.
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- It's full of signs.
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- The old testament is full of power of god.
- 00:17:51.226 --> 00:17:53.896
- The miracles of god is full of signs.
- 00:17:53.896 --> 00:17:56.632
- And they said, performs a miracles.
- 00:17:56.632 --> 00:17:58.567
- More miracles, jesus.
- 00:17:58.567 --> 00:18:00.035
- And we'll believe that's what the jews wanted to believe.
- 00:18:00.035 --> 00:18:03.505
- But paul says
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- The real power of god is seen in the cross.
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- What is the cross?
- 00:18:07.809 --> 00:18:09.778
- The cross gave through jesus?
- 00:18:09.778 --> 00:18:14.516
- The ability
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- And the way in which the purpose of god
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- Will be fulfilled in your life and in my life.
- 00:18:19.188 --> 00:18:22.257
- You see that?
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- Remember what we said,
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- Power
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- Is the ability to fulfill purpose.
- 00:18:26.895 --> 00:18:30.098
- And we said exactly what the purpose of god is
- 00:18:30.098 --> 00:18:33.035
- To get you and me right with him.
- 00:18:33.035 --> 00:18:35.537
- How in the world do we get right with him?
- 00:18:35.537 --> 00:18:37.739
- It takes the cross
- 00:18:37.739 --> 00:18:39.308
- Because all the trash in your life and my life
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- Is put on that cross.
- 00:18:42.744 --> 00:18:44.346
- And he died.
- 00:18:44.346 --> 00:18:45.347
- He bled, he was crucified.
- 00:18:45.347 --> 00:18:47.482
- And therefore now
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- You and i can talk with god, and god can talk with us.
- 00:18:48.617 --> 00:18:52.788
- You can't pray any time you want to pray,
- 00:18:53.655 --> 00:18:56.792
- Somebody say, well, i want to ask god to help me
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- Here, god, me here.
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- I'll get a good medical report.
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- I'm. oh, no, if they're sin in your life
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- And in my life living on going sin,
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- Any time you go to god, he's going to say, wait,
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- Wait a minute, wait a minute, alice.
- 00:19:10.339 --> 00:19:12.341
- Let's talk about this thing.
- 00:19:12.341 --> 00:19:14.176
- Get this worked out, then we can talk.
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- Then i'll listen.
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- Then i'll work.
- 00:19:19.348 --> 00:19:21.383
- And this is what this is all about.
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- The cross.
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- Jesus satisfies the justice of god
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- And demonstrates the love of god,
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- And that he died on the cross
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- So we can get right through to god.
- 00:19:33.195 --> 00:19:35.864
- That's the only way.
- 00:19:35.864 --> 00:19:37.666
- And therefore that's the power of god
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- To operate in your life and to operate in my life.
- 00:19:40.669 --> 00:19:44.106
- And it was nailed down at easter.
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- If anybody had any doubt about what was going on.
- 00:19:46.975 --> 00:19:51.013
- And so we see
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- The very power of god
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- Power restrained.
- 00:19:57.552 --> 00:19:59.888
- Aren't you glad god is patient with you and me?
- 00:19:59.888 --> 00:20:02.658
- Sure i am.
- 00:20:02.658 --> 00:20:03.692
- My goodness,
- 00:20:03.692 --> 00:20:04.826
- He's long suffering is a good biblical word for it.
- 00:20:04.826 --> 00:20:08.563
- He's patient.
- 00:20:08.930 --> 00:20:10.098
- He waits like the father.
- 00:20:10.098 --> 00:20:12.301
- The prodigal waited, waited, waited, waited until
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- There was that breakthrough.
- 00:20:16.071 --> 00:20:17.539
- And he ran
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- A running god.
- 00:20:19.641 --> 00:20:21.610
- He ran to greet and to restore and to forgive.
- 00:20:21.610 --> 00:20:25.414
- That's so very, very important.
- 00:20:26.048 --> 00:20:29.451
- Marjorie rawlings
- 00:20:29.885 --> 00:20:32.654
- Wrote a tremendous book.
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- It's called the yearling
- 00:20:36.091 --> 00:20:38.293
- Classic.
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- It's book.
- 00:20:40.195 --> 00:20:41.463
- It's about a primitive tribe, a group of people who live down
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- In the darkness of a florida swamp.
- 00:20:45.400 --> 00:20:48.537
- I mean, they barely eked out a living.
- 00:20:49.304 --> 00:20:52.407
- They had virtually no contact with the outside world.
- 00:20:52.407 --> 00:20:55.911
- They were really short people,
- 00:20:55.911 --> 00:20:59.047
- Ignorant people, but good people
- 00:20:59.748 --> 00:21:02.918
- Live this on the ragged edge of existence.
- 00:21:03.819 --> 00:21:07.789
- And rawlings writes about this group of people,
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- And she describes sort of the head of the clan.
- 00:21:12.327 --> 00:21:14.863
- There was a guy named penny, a father,
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- And penny sort of superintend to everybody else
- 00:21:18.066 --> 00:21:21.570
- In that little village in the middle of that swamp.
- 00:21:21.570 --> 00:21:25.173
- And also in that village there was a pitiful, pitiful
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- Young guy
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- Called father.
- 00:21:33.014 --> 00:21:33.882
- We father, we was born crippled.
- 00:21:33.882 --> 00:21:37.319
- Is he was his mind did not function.
- 00:21:37.319 --> 00:21:40.355
- He was very, very simplistic.
- 00:21:40.355 --> 00:21:43.392
- But father was a part of the community there.
- 00:21:44.326 --> 00:21:48.130
- And father, we had one unusual thing.
- 00:21:48.130 --> 00:21:51.166
- All the animals and creatures felt completely at home
- 00:21:51.166 --> 00:21:54.169
- With him.
- 00:21:54.169 --> 00:21:55.470
- It's a beautiful thing to see.
- 00:21:55.470 --> 00:21:58.140
- But father wing died.
- 00:21:58.140 --> 00:22:00.575
- And rawlings pictures
- 00:22:00.575 --> 00:22:02.344
- Father wing and that little wooden casket open.
- 00:22:02.344 --> 00:22:06.114
- All the community gathered around
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- And they don't know what to say.
- 00:22:10.118 --> 00:22:11.520
- But you know, when somebody dies,
- 00:22:11.520 --> 00:22:13.555
- Have you noticed everybody?
- 00:22:13.555 --> 00:22:14.723
- The thing about god is that that, you know, and amazing.
- 00:22:14.723 --> 00:22:17.859
- We just sort of cruise along.
- 00:22:17.859 --> 00:22:19.327
- But boy, do you let death come in. whoa.
- 00:22:19.327 --> 00:22:21.630
- We want to think about god.
- 00:22:21.630 --> 00:22:22.898
- And that was true of those backward,
- 00:22:22.898 --> 00:22:24.599
- Primitive people down in the middle of that swamp.
- 00:22:24.599 --> 00:22:27.536
- And so they looked at penny and said, penny,
- 00:22:28.470 --> 00:22:31.440
- You know something about christian stuff.
- 00:22:31.440 --> 00:22:34.242
- Here's father.
- 00:22:34.576 --> 00:22:35.210
- We want to just say a word.
- 00:22:35.210 --> 00:22:38.346
- And so penny went up there
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- And is almost illiterate way
- 00:22:39.848 --> 00:22:43.552
- And stood over that casket,
- 00:22:44.152 --> 00:22:46.588
- Lifted up his hand
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- And prayed this prayer.
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- Oh lord, almighty god,
- 00:22:52.861 --> 00:22:55.697
- It ain't for us ignorant mortals
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- To say what's right and what's wrong
- 00:22:58.500 --> 00:23:01.436
- Was every one of us to be a doing of it?
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- We know how to bring this poor boy
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- Into the world a cripple, and his mind takes.
- 00:23:07.175 --> 00:23:10.879
- We brought
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- Him in straight and tall, like his brothers.
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- Fit in to live and work and do.
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- But in a way of speaking the lord.
- 00:23:18.920 --> 00:23:21.756
- You done made it up to him.
- 00:23:22.357 --> 00:23:24.860
- You gave him away with riled critters.
- 00:23:24.860 --> 00:23:28.730
- You gave him a sword of wisdom
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- That made him knowing and gentle.
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- The birds come to him and the varmints
- 00:23:33.702 --> 00:23:36.605
- Move free about him.
- 00:23:36.605 --> 00:23:38.406
- And like is not.
- 00:23:38.406 --> 00:23:39.641
- He could have taken a she wildcat right into his pocket.
- 00:23:39.641 --> 00:23:44.246
- Twisted hands.
- 00:23:44.246 --> 00:23:46.848
- Now you've done see fit to take him.
- 00:23:46.848 --> 00:23:49.184
- Were being crookedly
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- In mind or limb don't matter.
- 00:23:51.653 --> 00:23:54.689
- But lord, it pleasures us to think.
- 00:23:55.423 --> 00:23:57.993
- Now you've done.
- 00:23:57.993 --> 00:23:59.060
- Straighten out them legs, and that pole bent back
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- And then hands.
- 00:24:03.865 --> 00:24:06.568
- He pleasures us to think of him, to move in
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- And around as easy as every one of us.
- 00:24:09.237 --> 00:24:12.807
- And lord, give him a few
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- Red birds, and maybe a squirrel, or coon
- 00:24:15.210 --> 00:24:18.813
- And a possum to keep him company like he had here.
- 00:24:18.813 --> 00:24:23.852
- And all of us is
- 00:24:24.252 --> 00:24:25.687
- Somehow lonesome,
- 00:24:25.687 --> 00:24:28.423
- And we know he'd not be lonesome.
- 00:24:28.423 --> 00:24:31.993
- Do we have them little wild things around him?
- 00:24:31.993 --> 00:24:35.931
- If it ain't asking too much to put a boo varmints
- 00:24:35.931 --> 00:24:39.234
- In heaven, thy will be done.
- 00:24:39.234 --> 00:24:43.038
- Amen.
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- Ladies and gentlemen,
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- I've got a flash for you.
- 00:24:47.742 --> 00:24:51.479
- Heaven.
- 00:24:51.713 --> 00:24:54.015
- Based on the faithfulness
- 00:24:54.015 --> 00:24:56.184
- Of god, he's going to be
- 00:24:56.184 --> 00:24:58.887
- More than we can understand with our pitiful,
- 00:24:58.887 --> 00:25:04.192
- Finite minds, hearts and passions.
- 00:25:04.192 --> 00:25:07.796
- Don't worry about anything.
- 00:25:08.396 --> 00:25:12.200
- It is absolutely beyond
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- Silly and beyond ridiculous
- 00:25:15.103 --> 00:25:18.740
- Because the god
- 00:25:19.107 --> 00:25:22.243
- We know and worship.
- 00:25:22.711 --> 00:25:26.381
- Through jesus christ.
- 00:25:26.881 --> 00:25:32.587
- We can be confident.
- 00:25:33.054 --> 00:25:35.890
- We can put our full trust
- 00:25:35.890 --> 00:25:40.161
- And weight down upon him
- 00:25:40.161 --> 00:25:45.233
- Because he is
- 00:25:45.600 --> 00:25:48.303
- What jesus said.
- 00:25:48.303 --> 00:25:54.609
- Father.
- 00:25:54.843 --> 00:25:57.612
- Your word is a lamp
- 00:25:58.079 --> 00:25:59.981
- To my feet, a light into my path.
- 00:25:59.981 --> 00:26:03.251
- Notice the promise in that verse.
- 00:26:03.952 --> 00:26:06.388
- A lamp for my feet i can see right here.
- 00:26:06.388 --> 00:26:09.190
- A light for your path.
- 00:26:09.190 --> 00:26:10.759
- We can see out there.
- 00:26:10.759 --> 00:26:13.094
- Not just inspiration.
- 00:26:13.094 --> 00:26:14.896
- For a moment, but guidance for a lifetime.
- 00:26:14.896 --> 00:26:20.235
- 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.
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- That's the heartbeat of this book.
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- 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.
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- This isn't about religion.
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- It's about relationship.
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- 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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