Ed Young - Fear Less

August 27, 2025 | S25 E206 | 29:0

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The Winning Walk with Dr. Ed Young | Ed Young - Fear Less | August 27, 2025

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Ed young: jack was almost 6'4", weighed about a smooth,
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Oh, 265 pounds, ex-marine,
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Big, strong, bombastic, personality just everywhere.
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If you knew jack you liked him, he was a man's man, he was
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Everybody's friend, he loved life, and he expressed life
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Fully and completely.
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He was the bubba, he was the redneck, but he was warm
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And real, but he had problems.
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His job was he drove a candy truck in three counties and he's
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Sold candy to all those little grocery stores as he traveled
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Day by day, but also he his life began to deteriorate, married,
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Had a daughter.
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His life began to deteriorate, he became a womanizer, he loved
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To gamble, cards, dice, didn't make any difference.
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He owed some money, he was profane, you name it but you
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Liked him, he was just that kinda warm,
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Contagious personality.
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But i met jack years ago and i had a chance to introduce him
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To jesus christ and i did it boldly, and he responded
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With tears, and he said, "that's what i needed.
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That's what i have to have."
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And jack turned his life over the lord jesus christ, it
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Was one of those radical conversions.
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When he walked down the aisle, the church you could hear a gasp
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And when he went out into the community where he
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Was well-known because he traveled all that area
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For so many years, when they heard about his new life
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They gasped.
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A lot of people said you know, it won't last.
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All that gambling, all that womanizing, credit that he owes,
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He's taken advantage of people, but jack went out and made
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Restitution as best he could, he got into a brand new
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Relationship with his wife, his young teenage daughter, he spent
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Time and they became almost inseparable.
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When we had church jack was there, in bible study he was
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Discipled, and before long, about two or three years later,
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He was a powerful, dynamic witness for jesus christ.
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I don't know how many people he led to christ; his whole gang,
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His old crowd.
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It was an amazing thing to be a part of.
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One day in conversation i said jack, what is it
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About the christian life that's really changed?
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And he could mention all the immoral things he turned
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Away from, and how he prayed and read his bible, but he said,
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You know something you'd never guess.
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He said, "i get up in the morning and i'm no
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Longer afraid."
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I said what do you mean?
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He said, "i carried a gun."
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He said, "i was afraid some husband would shoot me."
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He said, "i was afraid some creditor would come
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And embarrass me."
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He said, "all day, every day wherever i went, i was afraid,
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Afraid, afraid."
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But he said, "now in jesus christ, that fear has been
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Taken away."
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Let me tell you something, sin always carries with it fear,
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Have you noticed that?
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You see it all the way through the bible and we see it
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All the way through our lives, sin leads to fear.
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In genesis, start right there, adam and eve sinned, they ate
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The fruit god told them not to eat and then god came
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In the cool of the evening to talk with adam and eve.
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What a fabulous thing, almighty god coming and meeting
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In that pristine garden with adam and eve, but he went
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This afternoon and he couldn't see them.
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He said, "adam where are you?"
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Adam says, "lord, i'm hiding."
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He said, "you're hiding, why are you hiding?"
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He said, "i'm afraid, i'm naked, and i hid."
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That's what sin does to us, fear.
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I'm afraid to be in the presence of god, i want to hide from god,
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And i'm fearful of god; that's what happens with sin.
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God knew immediately what adam and eve had done, they'd eaten
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Of the forbidden fruit, they had moved away from being responsive
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To him; sin always leads to fear.
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Right there in the beginning and all the way through, but we
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Find no better illustration of this than god's man david;
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David the harpist, the military hero, slayer of goliath.
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I mean the bible says that david was the apple of god's eye.
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In god's eyes, they said david's was so close to the almighty,
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God looked through his eye and he saw his servant david,
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And was so proud of him.
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King, warrior, writer of psalms, a man of prayer, a man seeking
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God's wisdom, a man discipled by nathan, what a fabulous
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Story, what a wonderful story of a man who lived for the lord
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God almighty.
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The psalms tell about him, he wrote many of them, and we know
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Even the messiah came through the lineage of david,
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A special, great individual.
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But there was a revolution and the revolution was led
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By all people, absalom, david's most gifted son absalom.
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When david would go in to counsel people and make
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Big decisions about the government, absalom
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Stayed outside and david would side with one group and when
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They would go out, the other group that he doesn't agree
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With, absalom would say you know if i'd been king, i'd been
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On your side.
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And this went on for a period of months and years
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Until finally the younger people said boy, we wish absalom was
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The king, and this led to a revolt, a coup d'état,
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A sudden and violent overthrow of the government.
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So absalom had his army, they ran his father david
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Out of the palace, on the streets, all the way
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Across the valley, all the way across the river, and now here
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Is david with his little cadre of men run out of the
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Kingdom, hiding in the wilderness.
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And now we see what david was going through with a great fear
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That he had in psalm chapter number 3, look at it.
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It says, "o lord," verse 1, "how my adversaries have increased,
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Many are rising up against me."
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What's he saying?
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He's saying there are thousands after me and they want to kill
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Me, they wanna hang me, they wanna embarrass me, they want
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To shame me, they want to punish me.
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He said thousands are after my life, that's one kind of fear.
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It's bodily fear that we have, the fear of health,
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So many are just overwhelmed with fear, young people
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Especially i've noticed, more than even older people.
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Fear, fear. david was fearful of his body.
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He said there are thousands of people hunting me down, they
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Want to kill me, slaughter me, punish me.
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That's one kind of fear, is it not?
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Bodily fear, health that we have, well-being, dangerous
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Times, it's that fight or flight kind of fear that comes over,
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It's a good thing, but look at the other kind of fear
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He says.
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Verse 2, "many are saying of my soul," that's his personality,
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Who he is, "there is no deliverance for him in god."
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What does that mean?
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It means david, you've got so far off track and you're such
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A rebel, and you become such a scum as a leader, god won't
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Even listen to you, you've turned your back on god,
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So you're nothing.
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And shimei, you read closely, when david was leading
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Jerusalem, shimei was over there, ah david, you're
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Getting what you deserve.
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You're like saul, you've lost the kingdom, you're immoral,
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You're scum, you're an embarrassment, you can't
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Lead, and they were hassling david.
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Think about it, being booed, being forced, a revolution,
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And now he's fearful for his body and now he's
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Fearful inside.
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You know that kind of fear?
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Of fear inside, you can't sleep, nobody knows about it, you have
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That fight or flight emotion going on all the time, and it
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Will eat anybody up.
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That happens when sin begins to reign in a life, a secret
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Sin, unknown sin, a deadly sin, and that's what david
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Was feeling.
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He said oh, my soul, my personality.
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I, me, mine, mine, who i am as a human being, it is being
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Attacked viciously.
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That's the trial he was in.
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Now i want you to look in the same chapter here
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At david's trust in the middle of all of this, fear for his
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Body, fear for his own soul, his own sanity.
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And then it says, "but you, oh lord," david is praying.
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"'are a shield about me, my glory, and the one who lifts
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My head.'
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I was crying to the lord with my voice and he answered me
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From his holy mountain.
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'you, o lord,' david prayed to the almighty, 'are a shield
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For me.'"
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You know what kind of shield was this?
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You know they had round shields they would hold and they would
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Fight hand-to-hand with little round shield, but this shield
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Was not a little round shield, it was a big shield
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About the size of a door-- and the interesting thing--it
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Was a shield that would wrap around you.
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This was a shield that would be used when they were storming
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A fortress and they would take this big shield, and the captain
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Would lead and they would follow along with this big shield;
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And then we see the fiery arrows would come and the spears
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Would've been thrown, and they take the hot burning pitch
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And pour it on 'em or hot water, and said keep on moving forward.
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As long as you had this shield in front of you and you were
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Moving forward, it may mean your death, but god would shield you,
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But if you turned around, you had no protection, no protection
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From the back.
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It's a shield we use to charge and move out in life, and david
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Is saying in the middle of all of this, i am going to
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Move forward.
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Oh lord, you are the one who shields me, protects me, defends
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Me, as long as i'm moving forward for you.
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And then that little phrase there, you have to watch it, he
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Said, "and you are my glory and the one who lifts up
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My head."
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See remember david's flat-down praying, he said, "but you are
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My glory."
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What does that mean?
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Evidently something else had been david's glory, had it not?
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And there's a change that's taking place here, now david is
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Saying "lord, you're my glory, you're my glory."
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The word glory in the bible means weight, it means to be
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Weighty, it means to be heavy.
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So david said, lord you are my glory, you are the one that i
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Rely on, you're the one who makes me feel worthy, you're
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The audience to whom i'm playing.
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Now if there is a change here, before this, what was the glory
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Of david?
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It wasn't the lord, the glory was upon himself.
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Now he's moving from himself and self-glory unto relying
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On the glory, the weightiness of god, god becomes his audience
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And not an audience of old david, what was the glory he
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Had before?
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Well i'm a powerful king, that was his glory, not anymore, he'd
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Been thrown off the throne.
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Well i have a strong family, not anymore, one of your son is
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Leading this revolution, none of your children are with you,
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Not your family.
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Well the people, the people like me, i'm popular.
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Not anymore, take the polls david, most of the half
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The country has turned against you.
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Oh, but you know, i'm a good man.
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No, no david, that won't work.
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Everybody knows about your adultery, everybody knows
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About your murder, everybody knows about it.
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No, you're not a good man, you don't have that anymore david.
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I'm a military hero.
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Oh, they've forgotten that david, look you're not a hero
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Now, you're running, running from an army to save your
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Own life.
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You see, what david had put glory in and what was weighty
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In his life wasn't there anymore, he lost all that, none
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Of that was available, what he'd counted on wasn't there.
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And now david, flat of his face, said, "lord you are my glory,"
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And he says, "you're the only one that can lift up my face;"
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You're the only one you can let me stand tall again, david.
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What a picture we have here of fear and the answer to fear,
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Flat of our face, all that we'd relied on had been put to one
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Side, and now the glory is given only to god himself.
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Turn now to revelation, i hope you're already there with your
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Bible, i put a little mark in my bible so i can find it
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Rather rapidly.
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Now this passage in revelation is also written in the midst
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Of fear.
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What was going on?
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This is written by the apostle john on the isle of patmos, all
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The other apostles had been martyred, they were dead.
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John was an old, old man hiding in a cave because all the roman
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Emperors, domitian, nero, all of them had been slaughtering
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Christians systematically.
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They would tie them to horses and one horse tied to this arm,
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One to this arm, they'd be ripped apart; they were boring
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Holes in their head; they were being burned at the stake; they
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Being fed to various wild animals; they were obliterating
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The christians.
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And so here is john hiding in patmos but the lord gives him
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A vision, in the midst of all the fear he had for himself,
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For all of christianity, god gives him a vision here and i
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Won't read it but it's right there, a vision of jesus christ.
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It's sort of parallel to a godly vision in daniel but this
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Vision, it pictures jesus christ.
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It says, "his hair was white as snow as was his head, and his
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Feet," this vision of jesus, "was burnished bronze, like his
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Feet were on fire themselves, shining so brightly."
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And he says, "his eyes were like lasers of fire," in this vision
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Of jesus; and he says, "his voice was like the roaring sound
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Of many waters;" and he said, "his faith shone like the sun,"
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The sun.
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And in this vision, john here said, "he fell down as if he
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Were dead and jesus," in this vision, "came and put his hand
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On him and said, 'john, don't be afraid.'"
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Don't be afraid.
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And then he proceeds to say something very, very profound,
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See it there in your scripture?
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Jesus says, "i am the first and the last."
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Jesus says, "i am the alpha and the omega."
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You say well, what in the world does that do about fear and all
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That we're going through of my job, of our nation, of our
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Economy, of the future that we have, and my own family,
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What, how does this help?
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Jesus says i am the alpha, the first, i am the omega, let
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Me tell you exactly how it helps.
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You have to have a firm doctrinal understanding of life,
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A place to stand.
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When jesus says i am alpha, he's saying i am the first.
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He's saying before me that was not anything or anybody, there's
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Nothing before me; i came and brought into existence every
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Thing that does exist.
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That is a firm foundation, that is a basic principle,
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A theological doctrine upon which the church
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And individual christians have to stand.
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Jesus says, "i am first."
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We understand that when we try to find out who we are.
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Some people have the idea, well i want to find out who i am, i'm
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Going to look at myself, that's the place to begin, just look
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At number one and you'll discover about yourself.
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The cart said, i think, therefore i am.
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The bible goes a totally different direction to, no-no,
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You're never gonna define who you are, i'm never gonna define
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Who i am if i begin by myself.
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You see, i'm too close.
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This bible, i would hold it up to my eyes and if you held it
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Close and i'd never seen it, i see a little bit of red, but i
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Wouldn't know what that is, but i put the bible over to one
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Side at a distance, i get perspective.
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You never can discover yourself by only studying and looking
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At yourself; freud, sigmund, was totally wrong.
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Well if you find that you were toilet trained too early or if
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You find out that your mother.
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No-no-no-no, we never discover ourselves by looking
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At ourselves, we have to back off and see things
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From a distance.
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I lived 20 years of my life in laurel, mississippi.
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Man, i've ridden my bicycle all over those streets, i've been
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All over that town many many times and i would have told you,
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Man i know laurel, mississippi, like the back of my hand.
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I know trees and alleys, and people, i know, i lived
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There 20 years.
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But you know what, i didn't know my hometown until i'd been away
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From it for a number of years, then i could really understand
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And see my hometown a lot better.
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People who moved out of the united states, they
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Moved to other nations and live there for a while, they said i
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Learn and understand america now more after living abroad than i
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Ever understood america when i lived there.
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You see we get too close, we can't see ourselves, but when we
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Back up we begin to see ourselves maybe as god sees us,
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And maybe that gives us understanding of ourselves.
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We have a whole perspective of life when we start
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With the lord jesus christ.
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He says, "i am the alpha, i am the beginning," and then he
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Says, "i'm the omega.
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I'm also the end."
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Do you see it there in your scripture?
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I am alpha, i'm the first.
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I'm the omega, i am the last.
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And that's where we really look and we find some meaning, i am
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The last.
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Most of us tragically, begin our walk with the lord by thinking
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That, well god, christ will be a means to an end and we'll say,
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You know i'll be in the church, and i'll have associations, i'll
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Be in the church, and man god's gonna forgive me.
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This is a means to finding myself but along the way we
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Discover that god is not the means, god must be the end;
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That god is the alpha and the omega, the beginning
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And the end.
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And we realize god isn't a means to some point that is out here,
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He is the point.
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I wanna ask you something, do you have your head down?
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All this closed-in experiences we've had, does somebody have
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Your head down?
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A lot of us do, we're defeated, and david started off with his
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Head down, he's running.
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He's running, he's lost everything but he took all
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Of those points in his life that he'd spent so much time
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And energy building and he turned away, and said now i
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Glory only in god and god has come and god has lifted up
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His face.
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When a little child is crying, what do we do?
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We go there and if they're on the floor, we get
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Down with them or we pick them up and we just lift up
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Their face.
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That's what god wants to do with you, that's what god enjoys
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Doin' with us when we're down and out and broken,
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And when sin, whatever form it takes, begins to deteriorate
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Us inside.
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And the lord jesus christ comes and he touches us, he said don't
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Be afraid, and he lifts up our face.
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He said look, i'm the alpha and the omega; i'm all
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The middle in between; i'm not a means, i'm an end
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In and of myself; get on my team, follow me.
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And guess what?
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The lord jesus christ, when he rules in your life and he rules
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In my life, he will come regardless of how low we get,
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Regardless of how far away we wander, he will bend down and he
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Will say don't be afraid, and he will lift up your face.
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Ed: there's never been a better time than right
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Now to make god a priority in your life.
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That's why we've created this 90 day devotional, "putting god
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First," number one.
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And when you and i do that, he is faithful to give the
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Direction of guidance you and i need every day to walk
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Through life.
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It is my prayer that this devotional will help you to
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Become all that god has designed you to become.
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Male announcer: call today or go online at winningwalk.org to get
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Your copy of dr. young's 90 day devotional "putting god first."
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♪♪♪
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Ed young: fear can and will distort your vision, it will
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Convince you that god is not present in your circumstances,
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You may even began to think that your problems are too big
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For god to handle.
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Do you remember what happened when the 12 spies who were sent
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Into the promised land?
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Remember 10 of the spies focus only on the giants in the land,
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But the other two saw the size of the giants and knew that god
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Was greater and would give his people the victory.
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Many times, your god, my god is too small.
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It really is a question of focus, isn't it?
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Whatever your circumstances, our circumstances, whatever we're
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Facing today, we need to remember and keep our eyes
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And our focus on god and then you can be fully confident that
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He is capable to deliver you and to deliver me.
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There is no doubt that this is a challenging time for all
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The world with so much uncertainty in life today, we
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Want to know how we can specifically pray for you.
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Call the number on your screen, there'll be somebody there
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To listen to you and to pray personally and specifically
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For that which god has placed on your heart.
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Let me tell ya something, we always count it a privilege
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To be able to touch your life and to be able to lift your
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Needs to our heavenly father.
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And let me personally thank you for watching today, i look
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Forward to our time together next week, right here not
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On the winning stroll, but on the "winning walk"
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With jesus christ.
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♪♪♪
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Ed Young - Fear Less

August 27, 2025 | S25 E206 | 29:0

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