Ed Young - The Father

March 19, 2026 | 27:29

The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young is the international on-air and online teaching ministry of Dr. Ed Young. The Winning Walk proclaims the proven truth of God’s Word to give men and women the world over a winning way to live life.

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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - 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.
  • 00:12:40.182 --> 00:12:43.853
  • By outfitting our lives with the word of god,
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  • We will be able to follow where the master leads.
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  • Psalm 119 says, your word is a lamp
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  • Unto my feet and a light under my path.
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  • God doesn't rush the journey.
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  • He lights the next step
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  • In the winning walk.
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  • Doctor ed young shares practical, biblical guidance
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  • To help you develop the strength and spiritual
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  • Balance needed for a steady, daily walk with christ.
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  • If you're ready to grow stronger in your faith,
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  • Call the number on your screen
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  • And request your copy of the winning walk today
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  • And begin walking confidently with him.
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  • 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.
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  • 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?
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  • We need to understand that.
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  • First of all, we better define power.
  • 00:14:07.369 --> 00:14:10.172
  • Power is the ability
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  • To accomplish purpose.
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  • Got it?
  • 00:14:16.645 --> 00:14:18.747
  • If you have the ability
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  • To accomplish purpose, you have power.
  • 00:14:19.949 --> 00:14:22.985
  • 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.
  • 00:14:45.708 --> 00:14:47.943
  • And he wants us also to be able to say,
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  • Not my will, but thy will be done.
  • 00:14:50.379 --> 00:14:53.382
  • He wants us to understand that
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  • God's way is better than your way.
  • 00:14:55.784 --> 00:14:58.954
  • 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.
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  • Oh, i know you'll do this.
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  • I know you'll do that.
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  • 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.
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  • Jesus came in the world.
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  • 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.
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  • 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,
  • 00:15:43.665 --> 00:15:46.101
  • 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,
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  • 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?
  • 00:16:24.239 --> 00:16:26.508
  • 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?
  • 00:16:33.082 --> 00:16:34.950
  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
  • 00:17:23.599 --> 00:17:25.100
  • 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.
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  • More miracles, jesus.
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  • 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?
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  • 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.
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  • You see that?
  • 00:18:22.257 --> 00:18:22.925
  • 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
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  • To get you and me right with him.
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  • 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.
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  • 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
  • 00:18:56.792 --> 00:18:58.794
  • 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.
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  • Let's talk about this thing.
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  • 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.
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  • My goodness,
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  • 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
  • 00:20:12.301 --> 00:20:16.071
  • 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.
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  • That's so very, very important.
  • 00:20:26.048 --> 00:20:29.451
  • Marjorie rawlings
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  • Wrote a tremendous book.
  • 00:20:32.654 --> 00:20:35.557
  • 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
  • 00:20:41.463 --> 00:20:45.400
  • 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,
  • 00:21:07.789 --> 00:21:12.327
  • 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,
  • 00:21:14.863 --> 00:21:18.066
  • 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.
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  • 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
  • 00:22:06.848 --> 00:22:10.118
  • 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
  • 00:22:38.346 --> 00:22:39.848
  • 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.
  • 00:22:49.291 --> 00:22:52.394
  • Oh lord, almighty god,
  • 00:22:52.861 --> 00:22:55.697
  • It ain't for us ignorant mortals
  • 00:22:56.398 --> 00:22:58.500
  • To say what's right and what's wrong
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  • 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.
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  • 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
  • 00:23:28.730 --> 00:23:30.432
  • That made him knowing and gentle.
  • 00:23:30.432 --> 00:23:33.702
  • The birds come to him and the varmints
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  • Move free about him.
  • 00:23:36.605 --> 00:23:38.406
  • And like is not.
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  • He could have taken a she wildcat right into his pocket.
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  • 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
  • 00:23:49.184 --> 00:23:51.653
  • 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
  • 00:23:59.060 --> 00:24:03.865
  • And then hands.
  • 00:24:03.865 --> 00:24:06.568
  • He pleasures us to think of him, to move in
  • 00:24:06.568 --> 00:24:09.237
  • 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
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  • Somehow lonesome,
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  • And we know he'd not be lonesome.
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  • Do we have them little wild things around him?
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  • If it ain't asking too much to put a boo varmints
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  • In heaven, thy will be done.
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  • Amen.
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  • Ladies and gentlemen,
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  • I've got a flash for you.
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  • Heaven.
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  • Based on the faithfulness
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  • Of god, he's going to be
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  • More than we can understand with our pitiful,
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  • Finite minds, hearts and passions.
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  • Don't worry about anything.
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  • It is absolutely beyond
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  • Silly and beyond ridiculous
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  • Because the god
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  • We know and worship.
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  • Through jesus christ.
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  • We can be confident.
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  • We can put our full trust
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  • And weight down upon him
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  • Because he is
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  • What jesus said.
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  • Father.
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  • Your word is a lamp
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  • To my feet, a light into my path.
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  • Notice the promise in that verse.
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  • A lamp for my feet i can see right here.
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  • A light for your path.
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  • We can see out there.
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  • Not just inspiration.
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  • For a moment, but guidance for a lifetime.
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  • 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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